parenthetic
Example Sentences
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That nearly 100-year-old publication instructs sentence drafters to “enclose parenthetic expressions between commas” and to “place a comma before and or but introducing an independent clause.”
From Slate • Jan. 28, 2014
Sir: The clue to their success is tucked unobtrusively into one parenthetic expression that you use: "Russian is more precisely phonetic than English."
From Time Magazine Archive
Two short sentences are better than one long one containing a parenthetic expression.
From News Writing The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories by Spencer, M. Lyle (Matthew Lyle)
If a parenthetic expression is preceded by a conjunction, place the first comma before the conjunction, not after it.
From A Foreword to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition by James, Juliet Helena Lumbard
"Hark at that child!" cried Mrs Durbeyfield, with parenthetic admiration.
From Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Hardy, Thomas
