"She's brunette, beautiful, smart, sassy, a good businesswoman, and strong-willed." - Brandon Routh, in USA Weekend, about his girlfriend Courtney Ford
Brandon has made an error in parallelism. He has listed six qualities about his girlfriend, but five are adjectives and one is a noun. Items in a list should conform to the same part of […]
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