[NIFL-ESL:8378] RE: Grammar question

From: Peggy Dean (PDean@irc-desplaines.org)
Date: Thu Dec 12 2002 - 12:08:48 EST


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I like a more simple approach - The Bensons enjoy snow skiing in the
winter, basketball games in the spring, and water skiiing in the summer.
It sets up the 3 sports in a clearer way.
P Dean

-----Original Message-----
From: Lorraine Dutton [mailto:lad-oh@etop.org]
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 10:13 AM
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Subject: [NIFL-ESL:8372] Grammar question


Hi all!

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

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

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

Let me know your ideas!

Lorraine Dutton
lad-oh@etop.org 



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