Balanced sentence

A balanced sentence is a sentence that employs parallel structures of approximately the same length and importance.

Examples

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..." (A Tale of Two Cities)^[1]
"White chickens lay white eggs, and brown chickens lay brown eggs; so if white cows give white milk, do brown cows give chocolate milk?"^[1]
From Abraham Lincoln's 1863 Gettysburg Address, two powerful examples: "But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate—we cannot consecrate—we cannot hallow—this ground." and "...that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

1 2 "Focusing Sentences Through Parallelism". Archived from the original on 8 March 2008. Retrieved 2008-03-11.

Forms	Finite Non-finite — Attributive Converb Gerund Gerundive Infinitive Participle (adjectival · adverbial) Supine Verbal noun

Types	Accusative Ambitransitive Andative/Venitive Anticausative Autocausative Auxiliary Captative Catenative Compound Copular Defective Denominal Deponent Ditransitive Dynamic ECM Ergative Frequentative Impersonal Inchoative Intransitive Irregular Lexical Light Modal Monotransitive Negative Performative Phrasal Predicative Preterite-present Reflexive Regular Separable Stative Stretched Strong Transitive Unaccusative Unergative Weak

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