FLE 133 CONTEXTUAL GRAMMAR EXERCISES ON
PARALLELISM
#1: Our beagle loves to hunt. When someone opens the back door for her, he
barrels down porch steps into the yard.
She runs back and forth across the lawn in ecstasy. Her nose cruises the wet grass for smells of
cats, rabbits, and she sniffs other presences too subtle for human
detection. She spins her tail in quick
circles firstly clockwise, then counterclockwise. Sniffing and spinning always occur together
and they seem to propel her along.
#The
Government Printing Office in Washington D.C., which few people know about, is
a source of much useful information. It
is the official publishing house for the federal government which publishes
pamphlets and books on a vast number of subjects that range from the dangers of
X-rays from home TV sets to the identification of mushrooms. About 27,000 publications are offered through
the Superintendent of Documents, many of
which are inexpensive and there is no charge at all for some.
#2: The
man who reaped America’s first fortune was John Jacob Astor who was a German
immigrant. He made his initial money
trading Indian furs. For he was lowborn and uneducated, Astor never learned to
speak English properly. He carried on
his business to the end in an accent that was redolent of the Hamburg gutters.
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