In celebration of National Grammar Day, today’s training comes from NewsU’s most popular course: Cleaning Your Copy. Can’t figure out why a sentence just doesn’t sound right. The problem might be a ...

The parallel element is the repeating “whether” clause. Here is an example of a sentence lacking parallel construction: The opening statement is intended to inform the jury about the nature of the ...

PARALLEL construction is one of the most powerful tools for organizing and presenting ideas in writing. Indeed, it cannot be overemphasized that making sentences grammatically and semantically correct ...

I love being a copy editor because I like thinking about grammar, to catch other people’s errors and having an excuse to get Urbann Turbann regularly after a shift. Wait. There’s something wrong with ...

Today the ACLU filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request seeking records related to “parallel construction,” the government’s practice of falsifying a trail of evidence in order to conceal ...

What does parallel construction look like? We identified a case in Arizona where government officials illegally tracked a suspect’s rental car with a GPS device they’d secretly installed without a ...