Questions tagged [parentheticals]
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Commas around parenthetical phrase
Does the following phrase work with and without commas?
He has provided valuable insights, through his work on several projects in the field, to the rest of the team.
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There is a soldier on the hill whom he sees with binoculars
Give your first, immediate interpretation of...
There is a soldier on the hill whom he sees with binoculars.
What springs to mind?
Are these to be rephrased in the same way? Is the punctuation ...
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Do I need the comma in "it is in short...everthing"? [duplicate]
The intended meaning is that 'it', described simply, is 'everything'.
Would I write:
It is in short...everything.
Or:
It is, in short...everthing.
Instinctively, I believe that a comma is needed ...
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What is the correct punctuation when using two adjacent parentheticals in the middle of a sentence? [duplicate]
I was reading an amateur novel which had this sentence:
Humans by nature, at least in this day and age are fickle creatures.
My immediate thought was that the comma placement was wrong. My first ...
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Is it correct to allow a parenthesized sentence to be followed by another parenthesized sentence? [duplicate]
I've searched. Other questions appear to mostly deal with nesting and punctuation positioning. This one does not at its core. I will stress again, due to multiple dupe flags.. This question is NOT ...
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Parenthetical element: Comma or dash? [duplicate]
I am unsure when to use comma and when to use dashes when writing parenthetical elements in as sentence. For instance:
He answered - or at least he tried to answer - the question
correctly.
He ...
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Is there a term for insincere prefacing?
Is there a specific term for the practice of prefacing a statement with another statement that is in contrast (in spirit) to what is being said?
There is a related concept called apophasis, where you ...
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What rules govern whether a parenthetical phrase can be moved anywhere else?
Can all parenthetical phrases be moved to somewhere else in the sentence, without loss of meaning?
I just tried it with about 5 parenthetical phrases, examples from a grammar site, and I think they ...
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What part of speech is "so much so that"?
I was fascinated by the company, so much so that I wrote a book about
it.
I am trying to understand what justifies the use of the comma before "so much so that."
Does it behave as a ...
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Can an em-dash function as both an opener to its own parenthetical and simultaneously close a nonrestrictive clause introduced by a comma?
I've read that you are not supposed to include a comma before 'in which', since it is part of a restrictive clause linked to a noun. If you do put a comma before it, it is to render it part of a ...
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Should there be a comma after an M-dashed, parenthetic phrase [duplicate]
Should there be a comma — is this comma necessary? —, after an M-dashed, parenthetic phrase? And are those spaces necessary, on both sides of the parenthetic phrase? (ignore the '?', but as a third ...
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Commas Around a Disjunct After a Coordinating Conjunction? [duplicate]
Which punctuation is correct for this sentence? :
"I took the dog to the park this morning and, of course, he needed a bath afterwards because he rolled in the mud."
"I took the dog to the park this ...
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I, and I/me alone, did it all
I, and I/me alone, did it all.
Which option, I or me, and why, should be used in a parenthetical like this one?
Secondly, is it the same situation as in Me/I alone, I did it ?
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Can appositives rename a verb?
While researching, I discovered the existence of 'summative' and 'resumptive' modifiers, which are both types of appositive.
For context, here is an example of a summative modifier:
He saw the ...
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What are some alternatives to parenthetical statements?
What are some good alternatives to parenthetical statements in writing?
I notice that I tend to use (or rather, overuse) parenthetical statements when writing. Often, the parenthetical statements ...
