Worked examples
Two examples
Example 1
- Look at the shape of the items already in the list: lifting, working. Both are -ing words.
- Things that do the same job in a sentence should have the same shape.
- So the third item is an -ing word too.
Answer: The job requires lifting boxes, working weekends, and driving a forklift.
Example 2
- Pairs work the same way: whatever kind of words comes after either must come after or.
- After either: a verb and the words that go with it (pay online).
- After or: the same, a verb and the words that go with it (mail a check).
Answer: You can either pay online or mail a check.
Where this is taught: Sentences: Start Here, Part 6: Parallel structure
More practice: Quiz 35, Parallel structure and Quiz 35a, Parallel structure, again · In your Kaplan book: Unit 1, Chapter 4, Lesson 6, “Parallel Structure”
The drill
Ten questions
In each sentence, open the drop-down and choose the words that make the sentence correct, the way the GED test asks. A few questions ask you to tap a whole sentence instead. Then press Check my answers at the bottom.In each sentence, circle the choice in the brackets that makes the sentence correct; where whole sentences are given, circle one. The answer key, with the reasoning, is on the last page.