The Parenthesis ( ) is used to prevent confusion by the introduction to a sentence of a passage not necessary to the sense thereof.
Parenthesis ( ) Asterisk, or Star * As these are all the points required in simple epistolary composition, we will confine our explanations to the rules which should govern the use of them.
A sentence containing an expression in parenthesis is punctuated, outside of the marks of parenthesis, exactly as if the expression in parenthesis were absent.
As a general practice, give the references in parenthesis or in footnotes, not in the body of the sentence.
The parenthesis would be discarded and the passage read: Now shall the fire consume, the wan-flame devour, the prince of warriors, etc.
The parenthesis is by some emended so as to read: (1) (He (i.
As with many another parenthesis or gloss slipt into the text, we have only to read the passage without it, to see that it never was in it.
In Me, death is no longer death; it is only a parenthesis in life--a transition to a loftier stage of being.
The dash is often used in the place of commas or marks of parenthesis to set off parenthetical expressions.
If the parenthetical expression is long and not very closely related to the rest of the sentence, dashes or marks of parenthesisare frequently used.
The words apply in their fullness only to the parenthesis of time whilst He lay in the grave, and the disciples despairingly thought that all was ended.
They might still have said, 'Yes; we believe that You will come back again, and we believe that we shall be together; but what about the parenthesis of absence?
Now here is a sentence from a popular and excellent German novel--with a slightparenthesis in it.
Round his eyes were traced two yellow circles, and his mouth was enclosed by a parenthesis of vermilion; an arabesque pattern adorned each dusky cheek.
I never saw little eyes, set in a parenthesis of yellow crowsfeet at the corners, that did not betoken cunning.
In our rehearsal of the stages through which the process of induction ordinarily travels, we have purposely omitted one possible interlude or parenthesis in the series; not as wishing to conceal it, but for the very opposite reason.
This peaceful parenthesiswas hardly past before the trials of travel intruded themselves again.
Mr. Croker shows good reason for believing that in the original letter this parenthesis stood:--'if such there were.
The words in parenthesis were, I believe, not heard by Dr.
I don't treat the whole human race, trooping past my breakfast, as a parenthesis in my own mind.
VI Parenthesis To the Gentle Reader This was a footnote at first.
Now the supposed quotation is introduced here in a parenthesisinterrupting the sense, and there is every probability that it was added as an illustration by Epiphanius, and was not in the Epistle to Flora at all.
The omission was not made from any objection to the stanza in itself, but simply because it was too long a parenthesis in this place; on the principle which he states in a letter to Dr.
When a parenthesis is inserted in the sentence where no comma is required, no point should be used before either parenthesis.
Do you know that I" then there is a parenthesis and some Russian printing which I presume to be Russian and the parenthesis is closed, "speak a fair amount of Russian which I have been studying for many months?
The italic form of parenthesis is objectionable in book work.
The italic parenthesis may be used in job-work or full display lines of italic letters.
To avoid the confusion caused by a parenthesis within a parenthesis.
A period is placed inside a parenthesis only in two cases.
When a parenthesis forms the end of a declarative sentence the period is placed outside the parenthesis, as in the preceding example.
Distinction is sought for the word in italic and not for the parenthesis enclosing the word.
The space may not be needed when the proximate character has a shoulder, as in ( Art), or when the parenthesis follows a period.
And what is your whole human family but a parenthesis in a single page of my history?
I thought he was creeping down that way, but I was not prepared for a leap spanning such a tremendous parenthesis of boarders as this change of position included.
Do not use parenthesis marks to cancel a word or a passage.
Bring to class five sentences that illustrate the correct use of parenthesis marks.
