The day before his quiz and after his study session, Barry tried reading the dictionary and he memorizes all its words.
Maintaining Parallel Structure: -ing verbs
A sentence has parallel structure when its elements follow a consistent pattern. This makes writing more concise and clear to the reader.
To check if your sentences use parallel structure, focus just on words or phrases that seem like they should follow a pattern, and ignore all the others.
Not Parallel
Parallel
The day before his quiz and after his study session, Barry tried reading the dictionary and memorizing all its words.
Make sure that all repeated elements in a specific section have a consistent format.
Parallel Sentences
After the match, Sara was exhausted from running and hungry for brownies, sugar cookies, and chocolate ice cream.
Amy checked her phone all last night and this morning to learn who won the match and find out if her shoes arrived.