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2) “Sir
Pitt came in first,
very much flushed, and
rather unsteady in his gait.”
(Thackeray)
Sometimes nominal phrase is thrown into the sentence
forming a syntactical unit
with the rest of the sentence, as in
“And he walked slowly past again, along the river –
an evening of clear,
quiet beauty, all harmony and comfort, except within his heart.”
(Galsworthy)
Parallel Construction.Parallel construction is a device which may be encountered
not so much in the sentence as in macro-structures dealt with earlier,
viz. The syntactical
whole and the paragraph. The necessary condition in parallel construction is identical, or
similar, syntactical structure in two or more sentence or parts of a sentence, as in:
“There were, …,
read silver to stir the tea with, and
real china cups to
drink it out of , and
plates of the same to hold the cakes and toast in”
(Dickens)
Parallel constructions are often backed up by repetition of words (lexical repetition)
and conjunctions and prepositions (polysyndeton).
Pure parallel construction, however,
does Not depend on any other kind of repetition but the repetition of the syntactical design
of the sentence.
Parallel constructions may be partial or complete.
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