Parallel Conjunctive Relations in Efl (Linguistics‪)‬

ABSTRACT Parallelism is a well-recognized norm in English sentences; Dr. Johnson, Frances Bacon, and Walt Whitman are but few examples of creative writers who distinguished their styles with parallelism. Because if gives texts an effect of balance, disrupted parallelism spoils writer--reader interaction, disorienting the reader and hampering the writer's self-expression. Parallelism creates redundancy that is essential to textual predictability, an element responsible for reader's facilitation of information mental processing. This paper explores the theoretical concept of parallelism and presents all empirical investigation of EFL learners' use of this phenomenon. It surveys faulty parallel structures, classifies them into categories, explores their prevalence, and investigates the degree of difficulty that each poses. The experiment concludes that the degree of accuracy in learners' use of parallelism does indirectly reflect proficiency and that parallelism categories are ranked in ascending order of difficulty as follows: verb phrases, adverbs, noun phrases, adjectives, correlative conjunctions, clausal, and comparative structures.