
1) Arc 2) A-side 3) Bracket 4) Digression 5) Discontinuity 6) Divagation 7) Excursus
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1) French word used in English 2) PHRASE SET IN 3) Punctuation 4) Punctuation mark
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[rhetoric] In rhetoric, a parenthesis (plural: parentheses; from the Greek word παρένθεσις, which comes in turn from words meaning `alongside of` and `to place`) or parenthetical phrase is an explanatory or qualifying word, clause, or sentence inserted into a passage. The parenthesis could be left out and still form grammatically ...
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(brackets) Punctuation mark isolating part of a sentence which could be omitted
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• (n.) A word, phrase, or sentence, by way of comment or explanation, inserted in, or attached to, a sentence which would be grammatically complete without it. It is usually inclosed within curved lines (see def. 2 below), or dashes. • (n.) One of the curved lines which inclose a parenthetic word or phrase.Parenthesis: words in the def......
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(from the article `punctuation`) ...as a rule, carefully punctuated on the inflectional principle. The profusion of points and virgules in the English books of the printer William ...
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Punctuation marks (usually known as brackets).
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Pa·ren'the·sis noun ;
plural Parentheses . [ New Latin , from Greek ..., from ... to put in beside, insert;
para` beside + ... in + ... to put, place. See
Para- ,
En- , 2, and
Thesis .]
1. A word, phrase, or sentence, by way of comment or explan...
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sentence within another one something separatedÂ
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[
n] - either of two punctuation marks (or) used to enclose textual material
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parenthesis (s), parentheses (pl) 1. One of a pair of shallow, curved signs, ( ), used to enclose an additional inserted word or comment and to distinguish it from the sentence in which it is found. 2. Either, or both, of the upright curved lines, ( ), used to mark off explanatory or qualifying remarks in writing or printing or to enclose a su...
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a word, clause or even sentence which is inserted into a sentence to which it does not grammatically belong
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A parenthesis is a word or phrase inserted into a sentence to explain or elaborate. It may be placed in brackets or between dashes or commas: Sam and Emma (his oldest children) are coming to visit him next weekend. Margaret is generally happy — she sings in the mornings! — but responsibility weighs her down. Sarah is, I believe, our ...
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noun either of two punctuation marks (or) used to enclose textual material
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Practice in written or printed language of placing certain statements between a pair of punctuation marks such as commas, dashes (-), and brackets (), to show that they are asides or interruptions in the normal flow of text. Parenthetical commas are the subtlest device (`He did it
, so he said, in order to help us`)&...
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a punctuation mark used to enclose textual material
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[TEKS ELAR vocabulary] a punctuation mark used to enclose textual material
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