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Thank you We sneak Parallelism allah shmoop poor andy he's

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stuck on a plane at thirty thousand feet in front

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of the toddler from hell So far the demon child

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has picked the back of nbc from apple sauce and

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andy's hair and screamed bloody murder Oh and little brat

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has also engaged in parallelism Where are his parents All

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right we say that items in a list or parallel

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when they're all structured the same way items air formatted

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either as complete senses or sentence fragments And each item

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begins with the same sort of word being verbs are

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announced or whatever we see parallel construction not only in

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bulleted list but in complete sentences about passengers trapped in

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a jet with satan's Spawn say that andy in order

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to distract himself from the hellion nc thirteen d makes

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a list of all the things he's going to do

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when he finally reaches porta vallarta and these bulleted list

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would read like this in porta vallarta i plan to

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relax on the beach with a good book heated gourmet

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meal by the sea Visit a nature preserve Note how

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these three items on the list are all sentence fragments

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and they all begin with present tense verb ladies and

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gentlemen parallel construction chief but and he could just as

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easily make a list of all the things the hell

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raising toddler has thrown at him since they took off

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from houston Cheerios applesauce crayons and poop All right once

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again and he's showing us he's got this parallel construction

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thing down Four items on his list are single words

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and they are all now as we mentioned earlier parallelism

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doesn't just occur in bulleted list We also see it

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in sentences Say beelzebub is little list minion here in

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thirteen he has a list of his own on lee

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It reads like this This morning i will embarrass my

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parents The guy in front of me rue the day

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he was born and drive every other passenger on this

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plane insane With my screaming here we have a single

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sense about evil intentions This sense includes three future tense

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parallel verbs will embarrass make and drive Note that only

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the first firm embarrass gets the future tense denoting will

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in front of it We don't need will in front

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of make and drive because the senses parallel construction implies

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that make a drive are really will make and we'll

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drive Got that Speaking of lists here's one from the

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flight attendant who forgot to eat breakfast this morning As

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soon as i get off this plane i'm going to

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eat a hamburger fries and get a piece of apple

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pie to go Oh looks like our flight attendant doesn't

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quite get parallel construction She's combined to phrases beginning with

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the verge Eat and get with the noun fries Also

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we're pretty sure they don't serve apple pie at the

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port of eilat airport but you could check us on

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that Parallelism is what we used to structure lists and

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senses containing list so that each item starts with the

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same kind of word It has the same structure Now

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if only little lucifer would finish the flight traveling perpendicular

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to the plane and he would be oh so much 00:03:10.63 --> [endTime] a happier person yeah

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