Parallelism
Can you guys help me to correct these sentences? I went over all of them but I am not sure if they are correct
See example:
Through the use of e-portfolios, students can share their creative work and documented life experiences with others who provide feedback and assessment of their learning and skills development.
Jose
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Past participle verbs (those that end in -ed) may sometimes be used as an adjective -- and that's how you have used "documented". But the Grammarly software still views "documented as a verb. All of the verbs in your sentence are present tense except documented -- for Grammarly, this creates the parallelism problem.
You can ignore Grammarly or you can delete "documented".
Your sentence is very wordy and I would consider paring it back. You use three different pairings in your sentence -- "creative work and documented life experiences", "feedback and assessment", and "learning and skills development." Simplify and your sentence will be much more readable.
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answered Jul 02 '12 at 13:07
Jeff Pribyl
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Thanks a ton for a brief explanation.
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Why are you posting the same question twice?
– sanjay – Jul 02 '12 at 12:44 add comment