Nouns
This type of noun is NOT capitalized
What is a common noun?
This type of verb tells what you do, like run or talk.
What is an action verb?
An adjective does this.
What describes a noun?
This tells the position of an object or being in relation to another.
What is a preposition?
Items in a series must be the same tense & form in order to be this.
What is parallel?
What is a proper noun?
This type of verb describes your state of existence, like is or am.
What is a linking verb?
This modifies verbs & other modifiers.
What is an adverb?
This joins items together.
What is a conjunction?
The sentence that is NOT parallel: A. I went skating, had eaten, and working on my homework now. B. I skated, ate, and worked on my homework.
What is I skated, ate, and worked on my homework. or sentence B?
This is a replacement noun; it keeps you from being redundant in speech & writing.
What is a pronoun?
Have, has, had, & was are all this type of verb.
What are helping verbs?
What are tiny, fuzzy, and green?
This is not a boy band, but an acronym that helps us remember coordinating conjunctions.
What are FANBOYS?
The word that makes this parallel: Joe slept while Erin_.
A. was working B. worked
What is worked?
The 3 common nouns in this sentence: Joe ate a sandwich at home with the baby.
What are sandwich, home, baby?
The 2 verbs in this sentence: I ran, and then I stopped to get a drink.
What are ran & stopped?
These are the 2 adverbs in this sentence: The very tiny baby crawled quickly under the fuzzy, green blanket.
What are very & quickly?
These are the 2 prepositions in this sentence: The dog ran in his kennel under the table, and he would neither come out nor eat his treat.
What are in and under?
The rest of this famous use of parallelism: I came. I saw. I...
What is conquered?
The 2 nouns in this sentence: Exercise is good for building stamina.
What are exercise and stamina?
What are past, present, future?
This modifier answers the questions: when, where, why, & how.
What are adverbs?
These are the 3 conjunctions in this sentence: The dog ran in his kennel under the table, and he would neither come out nor eat his treat.
What are and, neither, nor?
This is the other academic area in which the parallel concept is used.
What is Math (parallel lines)?