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Writing Connections: You, College, and Careers
Book I: Sentences and Paragraphs
Lee Brandon, Mt. San Antonio College
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Grammar Exercises Answer Key
Exercise 16: Correcting Faulty Parallelism
Name: ___________________________ Date: __________________On the line that follows each sentence, mark each sentence as P for
parallel or NP for nonparallel. Rewrite the nonparallel sentences.
- Jacques Cousteau was an adventurer, explorer, and educator._____
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- He will be remembered not only as a pioneer but also as a major
figure of world history._____
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- His love for the sea led him to devote his life to researching,
protecting, and telling stories about it._____
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- His passion for the world's oceans made him an environmentalist,
an inventor, and a romantic._____
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- He is credited with co-inventing the aqualung, developing a one-person
submarine, and helping to start the first manned undersea colonies._____
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- Cousteau also invented skin-diving gear that freed divers from heavy
helmets and allowed them to float as if in space._____
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- His famous boat, the Calypso, was not only his transportation
but also a floating laboratory for experiments._____
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- He was not only a filmmaker who created many documentaries but also
an author of countless books._____
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- His famous exploits included unearthing an ancient Greek shipwreck
and photographing Antarctica's underwater ice formations._____
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- Millions recognized Cousteau, who was bespectacled and clad in a
trademark red wool cap._____
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- Cousteau was born in 1910 and died in 1997._____
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- Although he was a sickly child, he liked going to the beach, swimming,
and diving._____
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- He started out aiming for the skies in naval aviation school but
ended up in the water._____
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- He was honored with both France's Legion of Honor for his military
service and 40 Emmy nominations for his documentaries._____
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- He kept working well into his 80s, giving up diving in cold water
but not giving up educating young people._____
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- Preserving the oceans for future generations was as important to
him as teaching people._____
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- Not long before he died at age 87, Cousteau said that he was proudest
of helping to save Alaska, the Antarctic, and the Amazon and of awakening
the awareness of people everywhere._____
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- He was not only beloved in France but also celebrated in American
songs such as John Denver's "Calypso."_____
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- Cousteau's films and beliefs influenced people of all ages._____
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- He brought the mystery and beauty of the sea into the lives of even
those who were landlocked._____
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Source: Mark Leff, "Jacques Cousteau Remembered for
His 'Common Touch,'" CNN, http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9706/25/cousteau.obit/
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