Read each sentence, and determine whether it contains parallel structures.

"Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came."

"With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured."

"All dreaded it, all sought to avert it."

The first and the third sentences contain parallel structures. Parallel structure, or parallelism, is the repetition of the same grammatical structure or form within a sentence, so it becomes more balanced, and, therefore, more readable and clear to understand.

In the first sentence, the parallel structure has been used in the comparison: " ... would make war rather than let the nation survive and accept war rather than let it perish ... "

In the third sentence the same grammatical form has been used too: "all dreaded it (1) all sought to avert it (2)."

parallel

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parallel

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