PARALLELISM

1. Our beagle loves to hunt. When someone opens the back door for her, she barrels down porch steps into the yard and runs back and forth across the lawn in ecstasy.  Her nose cruises the wet grass for smells.  These are smells of cats, rabbit smells, and other presences too subtle for human detection.  She sniffs and spins her tail in quick circles.Firstly It spins clockwise  and then counterclockwise.  These two activities always occur together.  They are sniffing and spinning.  They seem to propel her along.

2.The Government Printing Office in Washington D.C.,  a source of much useful information, is the official publishing house for the federal government.  Few people know about it .  The GPO publishes pamphlets and books on a vast number of subjects which range from the dangers of X-rays from home TV sets to the identification of mushrooms.  About 27,000 publications many of which are inexpensive, are offered through the Superintendent of Documents. There is no charge at all for some.

3.: A man reaped America’s first fortune.  He was John Jacob Astor  who  was a German immigrant, lowborn and uneducated  He made his initial money trading Indian furs. Although Astor never learned to speak English properly, he carried on his business to the end in an accent which  was redolent of the Hamburg gutters.

5.26 Editing Activity : Run-on Recognition

1 .Because Grace is a vegetarian, she must pay attention to the amount of protein in the food she eats ,  so she eats a lots of beans and eggs.

2. When Grace first became a vegetarian, she missed eating meat since she had always liked the food she eats,Yet , she eats a lot of beans and eggs.

3.When Grace first became a vegetarian, she missed eating meat because she had always liked  the taste of it.Since she has grown to appreciate the pure taste of meatless cuisine, she can not imagine eating meat.Meat tastes  very strange to her, so  she is happy to be a vegetarian.

4.Sometimes it is difficult to eat out in restaurants due to the limited meatless choices on menus, but that is changing now with the increase in vegetarian restaurants.

5.Grace is opposed to the killing of animals.She is not only a vegetarian but she is also very disturbed by the use of animals fur for clothing.

6.She feels better now that  she does not eat meat anymore.She feels more humane and healthier.

7.Being a vegetarian and feeling that she is doing her share to protect animals, Grace becomes irritated when people question her motives for being a vegetarian.Although she tries to be patient with such people and makes them understand  the value of saving animals, people often just do not understand.