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Honors English
 * Parallel Structure Practice 1

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Directions:** Rewrite the following sentences to make them parallel.

1. She loves fruit and ate only apples.

2. The engineers have been and will continue to conduct their experiments despite the rain.

3. The benefits that the company and its subsidiaries give to the community are plentiful and include fostering community interaction with local high schools, contributing to the local property tax coffers, educational facility construction in otherwise impoverished neighborhoods, green market conscious raising group establishment, and improving good will with contiguous communities.

4. Recognizing that deceptive ads cheat the public but they do not want to lose income, TV stations keep on showing them.

5. To earn money, gain prestige, getting people to contribute their time and effort, and sales are the main aims of advertisers.

6. She limped across the verandah and proceeds to weep.

7. This story tells of the adventures of a hypochondriac who has been bothered by a painful kneecap and had attempted several miracle cures and takes matters into his own hands and performs an amputation.

8. Run while there is still time and then you can stop to catch your breath.