Tham khảo tài liệu 'forming comparisions 1', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Chapter 18 Practicing Parallel Structure 233 19. You may not know that the first example of this single-celled organism would have the name Amy. 20. When you split them in half the new organisms name themselves. 21. The right half of Amy was still called Amy by herself but the left half now called herself Bea. 22. The next time Amy and Bea split you have four new organisms. 23. No one can imagine a conference between four single-celled organisms unless they witnessed it. 24. Amy Right Half favored a name that people will notice. 25. Amy Left Half thought about the choice for so long that her swimming was neglected. 26. Bea Right Half a proto-feminist opted for Amy-Bea because she wants to honor both her parents. 27. Everyone always pronounced Amy-Bea very fast and soon Amoeba was their preferred spelling. 234 Part V Writing with Style_ 28. Single-celled organisms should have simple names that can be remembered by biology students. 29. Bea Left Half by the way will change her name to Amy-Bea when she reached the age of seventeen days. 30. You know what a teenager is like they always have to assert their identities. Matchmaking 101 Either Or Not Onty But Atso and Simitar Pairs Like dating couples some words that join ideas conjunctions in grammar-speak arrive in pairs. Specifically either or neither nor not only but also and both and work as teams. Also like daters these conjunction pairs tend to drift apart. Your job is to keep them together by ensuring that they link parallel elements. All you have to do is check that the elements being linked by these words have the same grammatical identity two nouns two noun-verb combos two adjectives or two whatevers . Check out the following examples in which the linked elements are underlined and the conjunctions are italicized Nonparallel Gertrude was not only anxious to achieve fame but also .
