Author(s): Dina. M. Salman

Abstract: This article is an attempt to the shed the light on the importance of using parallelism in English sentences. The parallel sentences are easily read and comprehendon the contrary of the non-parallel sentences which create confusion and ambiguity. However parallelism facilitates the production and comprehension of the recipients. This positive effect of parallelism is affected and restricted by four factors which can reduce its influence.This work tries to memorize these main factors and show the difference in the interpretations and comprehension of the sentences when they are parallel and non parallel.

Keywords: parallelism in English sentence, conjunctions, comprehension.

DOI: 10.22161/ijels.52.31