[Grammar] Parallelism

[lucalita009]

I have a sentence that is not parallel. Hope you guys can help me to correct it.

- My pet peeves are screeching chalk, buses that are late, and dripping sinks.

Thank you all.

 

[JohnParis]

My pet peeves are screeching chalk, late buses, and dripping faucets.
The sink doesn't drip, it leaks. The faucet drips.
Most people would understand you, however, if you used sink.

 

[Barb_D]

I have a sentence that is not parallel. Hope you guys can help me to correct it.

- My pet peeves are screeching chalk, buses that are late, and dripping sinks.

Thank you all.

It is essentially parallel. You have three nouns: chalk, buses, and sinks (faucets).

You can increase the uniformity by changing them to the same adjective/noun order.
screeching chalk
late buses
dripping facuets

chalk that screeches
buses that are late
faucets that drip

However, most people aren't that vigilent about parallelism. What would be objectionable non-parallelism would be something like "screeching chalk, when buses are late, and if the faucet drips."

 

[lucalita009]

Thank you so much
I thought I had to use V-ing + Noun but it seems not

 

[5jj]

ps. In Britain, we have taps, not faucets.

 

[Barb_D]

And somewhere in the US, we have spigots. Here's that's what the garden hose attaches to on the outside of your house, but I'm sure that somewhere it's that thing for your inside sinks.