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Parentheses Usage in Writing

Parentheses are used to include additional information that is not essential to the main text but can provide context. Material in parentheses should not have capitalization or punctuation unless a question mark or exclamation point is needed. If the information in parentheses is its own sentence, it should be punctuated as a normal sentence. Longer additional information is better included in its own sentence rather than in parentheses to avoid de-emphasizing it. The document provides examples of using parentheses and recommends other grammar guides and resources.

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Parentheses Usage in Writing

Parentheses are used to include additional information that is not essential to the main text but can provide context. Material in parentheses should not have capitalization or punctuation unless a question mark or exclamation point is needed. If the information in parentheses is its own sentence, it should be punctuated as a normal sentence. Longer additional information is better included in its own sentence rather than in parentheses to avoid de-emphasizing it. The document provides examples of using parentheses and recommends other grammar guides and resources.

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Parentheses Select from the following

Use parentheses [ ( ) ] to include material that you want to de-emphasize or that wouldn't
normally fit into the flow of your text but you want to include nonetheless. If the material within
parentheses appears within a sentence, do not use a capital letter or period to punctuate that material, even
if the material is itself a complete sentence. (A question mark or exclamation mark, however, might be
appropriate and necessary.) If the material within your parentheses is written as a separate sentence (not
included within another sentence), punctuate it as if it were a separate sentence.

Thirty-five years after his death, Robert Frost (we remember him at Kennedy's inauguration)
remains America's favorite poet.
Thirty-five years after his death, Robert Frost (do you remember him?) remains America's
favorite poet.
Thirty-five years after his death, Robert Frost remains America's favorite poet. (We remember
him at Kennedy's inauguration.)

If the material is important enough, use some other means of including it within your text—even if it
means writing another sentence. Note that parentheses tend to de-emphasize text whereas dashes tend to
make material seem even more important.

Quizzes on Punctuation Marks

period || question mark || exclamation mark || colon || semicolon || hyphen || dash


brackets || ellipsis || apostrophe || quotation marks || comma || slash

 
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