tailieunhanh - mcgraw hill s essential american slang phần 5

Tham khảo tài liệu 'mcgraw hill s essential american slang phần 5', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 172 the sentence murmurs laments conceptions . But in any case the point is that they must all be the same. To combine different forms would violate the rule for example mixing an infinitive with a gerund To complain of the age we live in murmuring against the present possessors of power . Such awkward mixtures are called shifted constructions and are regarded as a serious breach of style sloppy and often ambiguous. Extended parallelism is not a hallmark of modern writing as it was in the eighteenth century when the parallel style was predominant in formal prose. On the other hand it is foolish and unseeing to dismiss parallel sentences as out-of-date. They are still useful and by no means uncommon We must somehow take a wider view look at the whole landscape really see it and describe what s going on out there. Annie Dillard The professor shuffled into the room dumped his notes onto the desk and began his usual dull lecture. College student Advantages of Parallelism Parallel sentences have several advantages. First they are impressive and pleasing to hear elaborate yet rhythmic and ordered following a master plan with a place for everything and everything in its place. Second parallelism is economical using one element of a sentence to serve three or four others. Piling up several verbs after a single subject is probably the most common parallel pattern as in the two examples just above. Paralleling verbs is particularly effective when describing a process or event. The sequence of the verbs analyzes the event and establishes its progress and the concentration on verbs without the recurrent intervention of the subject focuses the sentence on action. Here is an example a description of prairie dogs written by the American historian Francis Parkman As the danger drew near they would wheel about toss their heads in the air and dive in a twinkling into their burrows. SENTENCE STYLES 173 And another an account of an invasion of Italy in 1494 by Charles VIII of France .