Saturday, July 19, 2008

One of these things...

On the side of my "Flavor To-Go Soft Drink Mix Peach Tea" individual diet tea-flavor packets' box:
"Anywhere - Anytime!"
at the office
biking
gym bag
picnics

Let me point out that there's no argument here for parallelism in the inclusion of "gym bag" -- rather than, I don't know, "at the gym," "exercising" or "workouts" -- which is a modified noun, since the other words/phrases in the list are a prepositional phrase, a progressive verb, and a plural noun, respectively. (As are my suggestions.)

1 comment:

brd said...

As a person who spends time editing documents each week, I have seen some non-parallel constructions in my day. Everything should be edited. Packaging should be edited.
Even blogs should be edited, but only by the writer.