Which of the following is an example of parallel structure?

Susan climbs up the stairs, opens the door, and turned on the light.

Susan climbs up the stairs, opened the door, and turns on the light.

Susan climbed up the stairs, opens the door, and turns on the light.

Susan climbed up the stairs, opened the door, and turned on the light.

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Abagail Jensen

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20 May, 08:17

Which of the following is an example of parallel structure?

Susan climbs up the stairs, opens the door, and turned on the light.

Susan climbs up the stairs, opened the door, and turns on the light.

Susan climbed up the stairs, opens the door, and turns on the light.

Susan climbed up the stairs, opened the door, and turned on the light.

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Orlando Hoffman · Answer 1

The last one. All of the verbs are in past tense and the nouns are in agreement with the verbs. All the language structures are parallel.

Teagan Ramsey · Answer 2

The sentence that is an example of parallel structure is: Susan climbed up the stairs, opened the door, and turned on the light. Parallel structure or parallelism is the repeating of a selected grammatical form, which forms a pattern in the sentence. In this sentence, notice that the first verb is in the past form; therefore, the rest of the verbs in the sentence should also be in the past form.