Parallel Structure and Infinitive Phrases

Which sentences include Infinitives?

• I went to buy groceries.

• She fell down the road.

• I went to eat diner at night.

• He fell asleep.

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CCSS.L.8.1A

Bonus: 5 pts.

Write two sentences about three of your favorite hobbies. Be sure to use parallel structure in your sentences!

Fix the underline word(s):

The moose ate all the cookies, all the cheese, and every last one of the burritos.

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CCSS.L.3.1A

Monica brewed espresso, steamed milk, and ________ jokes as she prepared Mike’s latte.

• tells
• told
• will tell
• was telling

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CCSS.L.3.1D

CCSS.L.4.1B

CCSS.L.5.1.B-D

CCSS.L.5.1C

CCSS.L.5.1D

Directions: Choose the option that maintains parallel structure in the sentence. Check your answers with the interactive version of the exercise.

When Delores realized that her father had made lima beans and rice for dinner, she __________, claimed to feel nauseous, and excused herself from the table. The bag of stale popcorn in her room would tide her over until breakfast.

• clutched her stomach

• was clutching her stomach

• did clutch her stomach

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CCSS.L.9-10.1A

The space between the idea of something and its reality is always wide and deep and dark. The longer they are kept apart—idea of thing, reality of thing—the wider the width, the deeper the depth, the thicker and darker the darkness. This space starts out empty, there is nothing in it, but it rapidly becomes filled up with obsession or desire or hatred or love—sometimes all of these things, sometimes some of these things, sometimes only one of these things.

–Jamaica Kincaid, On Seeing English for the First Time

Overall the parallel structures in this passage serve to…

• emphasize that when our ideas about things become separated from the reality of things, our emotions take over and the contrast between an idea and its reality becomes exaggerated.

• show that without our emotions, our intellectual understanding of the world becomes warped and disconnected from reality.

• demonstrate that without ideas reality becomes a confusing mess of emotions that are difficult to understand.

• explain that ideas and their reality rarely match up.

• contrast ideas and reality.

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CCSS.L.9-10.1A

Identify the the phrase in the sentence.
It is important to feel fabrics before you buy them.

• participle
• gerund
• infinitive
• verb

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CCSS.L.8.1A

I would rather eat potatoes than to eat rice.

• parallel

• not parallel

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CCSS.L.9-10.1A

There are five different types of dragons, but it is the imperial dragon that is chosen to dance through the streets.

• Noun

• ADJ

• ADV

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CCSS.L.2.1E

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.3.1G

Which verbal ends in -ing and functions as a noun?

• Gerund

• Participle

• Infinitive

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CCSS.L.8.1A