EXERCISES ON PARALLELISM

#1

Our beagle loves to hunt. When someone opens the back door for her, she barrels down porch steps into the yard. She runs back and forth across the lawn in ecstasy. Her nose cruises the wet grass for smells of cats, rabbit and other presences too subtle for human detection. She sniffs and spins her tail in quick circle. Firstly, it spins clockwise then counterclockwise. these two activities, sniffing and spinning always occur together and seem to propel her along.

#2

The government Printing Office in Washington D.C. is a source of much useful information; however, few people know about it. It is the official publishing house for the federal government. It publishes pamphlets and book on a vast number of subject ranging from the dangers of X-rays from home TV sets to the identifications of mushrooms. About 27,000 publications are offered through the Superintendent of Documents , many of which are inexpensive and there is no charge at all for some of them.

#3

A man, John Jacob Astor, reaped America's first fortune. He was a German immigrant, who made his initial money trading Indian furs. Astor was lowborn, uneducated, and he never learned to speak English properly. Therefore, he carried on his business to the end in an accent, which was redolent of  the Hamburg gutters.