There are some things that I have been finding that my brain does automatically, but I had no idea that I was doing it. When I start to read and research a little on parallelism I found out that I was doing it a lot.
Parallelism is when you set up a pair of things or a series of things and they seem to be put on the same pedestal. For example: when I went to school I learned a ton of great things, reading, writing and spelling. In this sentence I named of three things that seemed to be equally important. And that’s really what parallelism is all about.
Now there are a few rules to this concept that I was reminded or even learned about, and that was that in a series of things they must be in the same grammatical pattern. These patterns being a noun, an infinitive, a gerund, or other grammatical forms. Example: Greg is pressured to go to college, work a full-time job, and life as a newlywed husband. This is opposed to something like: Greg is pressured in going to collage, work a full-time job, and living as a newlywed husband. You see, work would need to be changed to working so that all three of the grammatical pattern would be the same.
Ok, so I pointed that they must be the same grammatical pattern in a series, now I would like to do same with a pair. It’s quite the same in concept; but that it’s only a pair of things and that you use the same wording. Example: If I was able to fly there would be so many things I could do and things I could not do. I like this example because it shows how again they are two things that mean two separate ideas, yet at the same time are on the same level in importance.
So next time you want to keep things even just think of parallelism.