"He was completely sweet and making sure I was comfortable." - Michelle Monaghan, in People, on kissing Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible: III
This sentence contains an error in parallelism. It is awkward because Michelle used an adjective modified by an adverb ("completely sweet") to describe "he" at the beginning of the sentence and a participial […]
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