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- Double parentheses - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Possible Duplicate: Is it acceptable to nest parentheses? Are you allowed to have parentheses within parentheses in English? Something like "(I did that because I wanted to (and the want cam
- Using i. e. in parentheses - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
When a writer uses parentheses to define a phrase or clarify a word in a sentence, is it appropriate also to use i e in the parentheses? That use seems redundant to me
- Where does the period go when using parentheses?
Where should the period go when using parentheses? For example: In sentence one, I use this example (which has a parenthesis at the end ) Should the period be inside, or outside of the parentheses?
- (Parentheses (inside parentheses)) - English Language Usage Stack . . .
As you saw in the title, parentheses inside parentheses don't look too good But, gramatically speaking, is it correct to do this? For example: Go to this site (you should probably check it out,
- Where does the question mark go — inside or outside the parentheses?
The question mark should go within the parentheses (I've copied this answer from a related later question asking much the same thing about exclamation marks and parenthesised text)
- parentheses - Number agreement when using “ (s)” for optional plural . . .
I agree with Dave Nealon The plural form covers the singular meaning because it's used as a class For example, we say "one or more objects" to mean "one object or several objects" We read this quite naturally and have no problem with the lack of agreement in number implied by "one objects" As Dave points out, the plural doesn't preclude zero or one of the objects I find "one or more
- punctuation - Use of two sets of parentheses, side by side - English . . .
I have a sentence that uses two sets of parentheses, side by side: Thank you for your letter of October 27, 2015 in which you outlined questions regarding the development of the new Pima Animal C
- Where should the apostrophe go on a possessive abbreviation?
When expanding an abbreviation in parentheses, sometimes the thing that was abbreviate was used in a possessive context Consider the following example: If the Giant Ostrich Bomb's (GOB) fuse is
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