Parallel structures intensify the bond between
two of a sentence's joined parts and make the sentence easier to read.
Any conjunction is a red flag for attending to parallel structure.
Although few realize it, Americans are generally able
to see the files kept on them, to correct mistakes, to block
disclosure (sometimes, at least) and to learn where information
has gone.
The state, on this view, was best held to certain
core functions—providing public goods such as defense, ensuring
the security of persons and property, educating citizenry, and enforcing
contracts—deemed essential for the market to flourish.
For Joyce, a Yuletide tale "should have food
in it, should have snow in it, and it should have gatherings of
people, relatives that you don't like, relatives that you do like,
and people that you otherwise would never have met."
We must see and hear things, we must visualize
the clothes, the rooms, the manners of an author's people.
