Which one of these sentences has parallel structure?

Question

A. Your strength, wit, and good advice were a comfort to me.

 

B. It was a comfort to me to share your strength, how witty you are, and your good advice.

 

C. Your being strong, your wit, and your good advice were a comfort to me.

 

D. It was a comfort to share your wit, strength, and your good advice.

Answer 1

A.  The sentence has parallel structure because it lists all of its subjects merely by themselves, in the form of exaclty one word, without any additional modifiers.

Answer 2

A. is the answer.  It has parallel structure because the three items listed are all nouns. 

 

B. is not parallel because the three items listed are an infinitive (to share...), a clause, and a noun.

 

C. is not parallel because the three items are less alike than in A.  Using the gerund "your being strong" throws the parallelism off because the simpler noun "strength" could have been used, as in A. 

 

D. also lists three nouns, but using the possessive adjective "your" with two but not all three nouns throws off the rhythm of the parallelism.

 

 

Answer 3

A parallel sentence structure involves repetition of a certain grammatical pattern. Which one of these sentences contains repetition?

Answer 4

Response "A" has parallel sentence structure.