Grammar exercises · 12 questions
Parallel structure exercises
In short
Test yourself on parallel structure with 12 interactive questions. Every answer comes with an explanation, and if you get one wrong, the AI tutor can explain exactly why your answer didn't work.
Question 1 of 12
The hostel was cheap, clean and ___.
Shaky on the rule?
Guessing gets you through a quiz; understanding gets you through the exam. Read the full Parallel structure lesson: Parallel structure (parallelism) means that items in a list, comparison or paired conjunction share the same grammatical form: 'She enjoys hiking, swimming and cycling.' Faulty parallelism (mixing forms, as in 'hiking, to swim and cycled') breaks the pattern, jars the reader, and counts against grammatical accuracy in IELTS Writing.