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Crotie3Ps Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

Pararel Form

I heard that writing in English should using pararel form, if yes my sentence below is considered as wrong, how should i fix this?
'I was growing up there with my two sister until eighteen years old while my parents have been living there since they born.'
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Parallel structures. What in your sentence do you think violates parallelism?

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  • What in your sentence do you think violates parallelism?
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Parallel structures.

What in your sentence do you think violates parallelism?
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I grew up there with my two sisters until I was eighteen years old, while my parents have been living there since they were born.

I don't exactly know what kind of "parallel form" you are thinking of, or how it relates to your sentence.
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GPYI don't exactly know what kind of "parallel form" you are thinking of, or how it relates to your sentence.
That's why I asked the question.
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AlpheccaStarsThat's why I asked the question.
Well, as you can guess from the message timestamps, I had not seen your reply when I wrote mine.
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'I was growing up there with my two sister until eighteen years old ----> Past continuous tense

while my parents have been living there since they born.' ----> Present perfect continuous tense

so, I use two different tenses
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Pararell form ---> A sentence or paragraph should use a tense only, or a same timeline. i think so, more or less
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Crotie3Ps'I was growing up there with my two sister until eighteen years old ----> Past continuous tense while my parents have been living there since they born.' ----> Present perfect continuous tense so, I use two different tenses
It is common for English sentences to include two or more different tenses. There is no requirement that every tense in a s
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Wow!!!
So, the sentence is correct, right?
Thank you very much, GPY Emotion: smile
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Crotie3PsPararell form ---> A sentence or paragraph should use a tense only, or a same timeline. i think so, more or less
Parallel (Note the spelling!) form means that if you have a list, a set, or a sequence of things, they should be in the same grammatical form. You can read about parallelism in writing here:

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Crotie3PsWow!!! So, the sentence is correct, right?
No, it is not correct. That is why I wrote a corrected version.

"... while my parents have lived there since they were born" is also possible.
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