Return-Path: <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id gBCHGBX13816; Thu, 12 Dec 2002 12:16:11 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 12:16:11 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20021212111058.00a54ec0@mail.etop.org> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: Lorraine Dutton <lad-oh@etop.org> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-ESL:8381] RE: Grammar question X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Status: O Content-Length: 1063 Lines: 34 That's a great one, Peggy! Thanks! Lorraine At 12:07 PM 12/12/02 -0500, you wrote: >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 >To: Multiple recipients of list >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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