Parallel Words by Stephan Burn – When Meta Met Fiction. Published Sat, 26 Nov 2011 12:00:14 -0600 by Rich Johnston | Last updated Sat, 26 Nov 2011 14:44:03 -0600 | Comments.

This mistake, a very common one among the professional writers I edit, means a phrase that should have been in parallel structure somehow fell short. Consider the sentence: “Christine likes kale ...

In their interacting parallel words, Wiseman and his colleagues suggest there are countless worlds, some being very similar to our own and others completely different.