He could not stand the long hours, so he quit his job. We all watched Titanic . Note the last example. Because of pollution is one reason so many animals are endangered. Mixed construction can often be corrected simply with the deletion of a word or two.
Pollution is one reason so many animals are endangered.
He likes to listen to music, to watch movies, and going swimming. She understood how to change the oil and replacing the air filter. The assignment required students to identify an important character in the novel, to describe this character's actions, and explaining how the character's actions influence the plot. To correct faulty parallelism, rewrite the sentence so that all of the different items are presented in the same way. He likes to listen to music, to watch movies, and to swim.