[NIFL-ESL:8374] Re: Grammar question

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Date: Thu Dec 12 2002 - 11:40:57 EST


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How about watching baseball games?

>>> lad-oh@etop.org 12/12/02 11:16AM >>>
Hi all!

I have a student who is working on parallel structure, and one of thesentences she encountered in her lesson is as follows:

The Bensons enjoy snow skiing in the winter, going to baseball gamesin the spring, and water skiing in the summer.

This sentence has faulty parallelism because going to baseballgames is a different structure from the other two elements in thesentence. My question is, how could you fix this sentence and still keepthe original idea intact? I'm drawing a blank....

Let me know your ideas!

Lorraine Dutton
lad-oh@etop.org 



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