Parallelism in an Inaugural Address Draft

Прочитайте цю статтю вголос

Увімкніть мікрофон і читайте у своєму темпі. Слова підсвічуються на ходу, і ніхто не зупиняє вас через одну помилку.

Ваш звук не потрапляє до MovaReader: розпізнає його ваш браузер. Політикою конфіденційності

Увійдіть, щоб ця сесія збереглася в історії читання.

Parallelism in an Inaugural Address Draft

By nine in the evening, the inaugural address still sounded like a committee report.

The ideas were sound. The sentences were not.

Dr Chen stood at the end of the conference table while three editors worked through the latest draft for the opening ceremony of a new civic institute. The speech needed to sound formal without becoming ceremonial, ambitious without becoming vague, and memorable without becoming theatrical.

Its main problem was structural. The speaker had important points, but they arrived in mismatched grammatical shapes.

One paragraph read:

"We will strengthen local partnerships, improving public access, and our research will become more transparent."

Marta circled the sentence.

"Three promises," she said, "but only one of them is built like the others."

The first item used will plus a base verb: "will strengthen." The second used a participle: