Here is a sentence I received in a student’s paper:
I love visiting Cape Coral with its beautiful ocean, gorgeous weather, and friendly people!
I wanted to analyze just what made her sentence so effective. Using the Linking Blocks allowed us to see its structure in color, revealing strong parallelism.
I love visiting Cape Coral with its beautiful ocean, gorgeous weather, and friendly people!
We see a prepositional phrase with a compound object, ocean, weather, and people. In addition to that, each BLUE noun has its own PURPLE adjective, modifying it.
The parallelism becomes even more obvious when we manipulate the word blocks like this:
I love visiting Cape Coral with its beautiful ocean, gorgeous weather, and friendly people!
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