Sentence structure parallelism

Parallelism in a paragraph means using the same grammatical structure in several sentences to establish coherence. The repeated use of similar phrasing helps tie the ideas and sentences together. Next, for example, is a paragraph predominantly unified by its use of grammatically parallel sentences ... 

The parallel structures of sentences 2, 3, and 5 ( if you + verb) keep the paragraph flowing smoothly from one idea to the next. 

Parallelism Ideas in a series are arranged in words, phrases, sentences, or paragraphs that are similar in grammatical structure Words he was left alone, lonely, and heartbroken (adjectives). Phrases . . . government of the people, by the people, and for the people. .. (prepositional phrases). 

We can also consider the phonological hierarchy, which is a different, parallel hierarchy which focuses on the sound patterns in a sentence. In this, we have the additional units of syllables, which are a structural sound unit used to group phonemes together and phonological phrases, another structural sound unit that groups words together within the sentence. Representations using these units can also be expressed in a hierarchy of sentences, prosodic phrases, words, syllables and phonemes. 

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