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When you list or compare two or more things, make sure your lists and comparisons are both logically and grammatically parallel.
True.
Correct/Incorrect.

The charges against him include financial crimes, human rights abuses, and that he murdered international aid workers.
Incorrect.
What are the items in the list?

The charges against him include financial crimes, human rights abuses, and that he murdered international aid workers.
1. financial crimes
2. human rights abuses
3. that he murdered international aid workers
Correct/Incorrect.

The charges against him include financial crimes, human rights abuses, and the murders of international aid workers.
Incorrect.
Correct/Incorrect.

1. Stu's math team beat Bronx Science.
2. Stu's match team beat Bronx Science's math team.
3. Stu's math team beat that of Bronx Science.
Stu's math team beat Bronx Science's.
1. Incorrect.
2. Correct
3. Correct
4. Correct
True or False.

It is not parallel to put singular nouns and plural nouns in the same list, or to compare them with one another.
False.

As long as the items in a list or comparison are all nouns, some can be singular and some plural.
Incorrect/Correct

New York City's population is greater than Montana, Wyoming, Vermont, North Dakota, Delaware, and Rhode Island all added together.
Incorrect.

New York's City's population is being compared to Montana, Wyoming, Vermont, North Dakota, South Dakota, Delaware, and Rhode Island all added together.

It should be:
New York City's population is greater than THOSE OF Montana, Wyoming, Vermont, North Dakota, South Dakota, Delaware, and Rhode Island all added together.
Incorrect/Correct

While we think of our state parks as pristine stretches of nature, some parklands actually cost more than maintaining busy city streets.
Incorrect.

Parklands is being compared to maintaining busy city streets.

It should be:

some parklands actually cost more to maintain than do busy city streets
or...
the maintenance of some parklands actually cost more than that of busy city streets.
Incorrect/Correct

Although the people revolted when their leader was found fixing election results, they scarcely made a sound when the same ruler was discovered siphoning campaign funds for personal use.
Correct
Incorrect/Correct

While the age as which Americans become parents has been steadily rising over the past decades, most young people still say that parenthood is an important milestone in life, much as it was for their own progenitors.
Correct
Incorrect/Correct

Despite the contributions of many great American novelists and playwrights, Shakespeare's plays are still taught in schools more frequently and deeply than any American writer.
Incorrect

Shakespeare's plays are being compared to any American write. Do not compare plays to people!

It should be:
Shakespeare's plays are still taught in schools more frequently and deeply than are the works of any American writer.