how to align the list?

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Believer  #311686  Sun, 07 Jan 07 06:20 AM

I clicked?? on this forums' what I think is hyperlink that said "learn English Letter Writing Grammar and Pronunciation" and saw this thing pop up and upon reading it, it got me thinking how best to align that or if it is aligned in the best way possible.

pop-up:

Learn and explore the English language with topics such as poetry, stories, ..., essay composition, and general chit chat

poetry and uncountable OK

stories and a plural countable OK with uncountable nouns

essay composition as a countable noun, Not OK??

chit chat as uncountable OK  

When you have a list like this, should we make every effort to align them or is there room to deviate?? like what I think is in the above case (essay composition being the one deviated)?

  
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Mister Micawber  #311766  Sun, 07 Jan 07 11:17 AM

If a list includes countable and non-count nouns (and here, composition is non-count), there is no way to make them more parallel than they are (i.e. they are all nouns):

I bought some milk, half a dozen eggs, three bananas, sugar, and a pound of butter.

  
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