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Hans51 Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
I have a question for GPY
Hello, I have always been thankful to you for great help and while I was reading your replies, a question about usage of parenthesis, ( ) came up
. Can you shed light on it?
the second is whether "90s" needs an apostrophe to form the plural ("90's").
like The only one who didn't attend was Mr. Jensen (her father)
So do you use the parenthesis for apposition with the plural or do you just put it at the end for an additional information and then can we put each of the three at the end of each sentence, can't we?
Could you tell me the reason there is the parenthesis at the end? And while trying to solve this, I realized that there are many different usages about it between my language and English, so I am confused now. Please help me out again.
Thank you so much as usual!
. Can you shed light on it?the second is whether "90s" needs an apostrophe to form the plural ("90's").
like The only one who didn't attend was Mr. Jensen (her father)
So do you use the parenthesis for apposition with the plural or do you just put it at the end for an additional information and then can we put each of the three at the end of each sentence, can't we?
Could you tell me the reason there is the parenthesis at the end? And while trying to solve this, I realized that there are many different usages about it between my language and English, so I am confused now. Please help me out again.
Thank you so much as usual!
Top answer
In both cases the contents of the parentheses gives additional explanatory information. Whether technically you could say that the bracketed parts are "in apposition" is not a question that troubles me. I wouldn't try to overthink it ...
- In both cases the contents of the parentheses gives additional explanatory information.
- Whether technically you could say that the bracketed parts are "in apposition" is not a question that troubles me.
- I wouldn't try to overthink it ...
- I expect you already have an adequate common-sense understanding.
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In both cases the contents of the parentheses gives additional explanatory information. Whether technically you could say that the bracketed parts are "in apposition" is not a question that troubles me. I wouldn't try to overthink it ... I expect you already have an adequate common-sense understanding.
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