Parentheses indicate that the writer feels that the material contained within is of less importance or should be deemphasized.<\/p>\n
Rule: <\/strong>Use parentheses to enclose words or figures that clarify or are used as an aside. Rule:<\/strong> Use commas, not parentheses, around an interruption to indicate it is of equal importance with the rest of the sentence. Rule:<\/strong> Use long dashes around an interruption that you wish to emphasize. You really can “hear” the differences in tone just by the choice of punctuation, can’t you?<\/p>\n Rule:<\/strong> Periods go inside parentheses if an entire sentence is inside the parentheses. <\/p>\n Pop Quiz<\/strong> 1. She requested actually she pleaded that her name be withheld. Pop Quiz Answers<\/strong><\/p>\n 1. She requested (actually she pleaded) that her name be withheld. Parentheses indicate that the writer feels that the material contained within is of less importance or should be deemphasized. Rule: Use parentheses to enclose words or figures that clarify or are used as an aside. Examples: I expect five hundred dollars ($500). Note: Another grammar tip titled “Writing Numbers as Both Numerals and Words,” treats […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parentheses"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nExamples: <\/strong>
\nI expect five hundred dollars ($500).<\/em>
\nNote: <\/strong>Another grammar tip titled “Writing Numbers as Both Numerals and Words,” treats this in more detail.
\nHe finally answered (after taking five minutes to think) that he did not understand the question.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nExample:<\/strong> He finally answered, after taking five minutes to think, that he did not understand the question.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nExample:<\/strong> He finally answered\u2014after taking five minutes to think\u2014that he did not understand the question.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nExamples:
\n<\/strong>Please read the analysis. (I enclosed it as Attachment A.)<\/em>
\nOR
\nPlease read the analysis (Attachment A).<\/em>
\nOR
\nPlease read the analysis (enclosed as Attachment A).<\/em><\/p>\n
\nPlace parentheses where needed.<\/p>\n
\n2. We arrived home the train was three hours late at midnight.
\n
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n2. We arrived home (the train was three hours late) at midnight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"