parenthesis
Pronunciation
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- (countable) A parenthesis is a symbol that looks like
(or). A person may see parentheses when reading books. Most of the time, they are not used to tell the main story, but gives the reader extra information so they can understand.- Billy and Bob wrote their papers (Billy wrote about karate, and Bob wrote about dogs).
- *The quote inside the parentheses, "Billy wrote about karate, and Bob wrote about dogs", is put inside parentheses because it would be a run-on sentence if there were no parentheses.
- *You can also use commas as parentheses, but you need to write the sentence differently.
- Billy, who wrote about karate, and Bob, who wrote about dogs, wrote their papers.
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apostrophe ( Other:
ampersand ( |