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Carolyn Okeefe Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Interrupting (parenthetical) phrases

I have searched the internet, dictionaries, encyclopedias, etc. to find out what is a interrupting (parenthetical) phrase is. What would be an example?
  

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She didn't say a word (though I would hardly have blamed her if she let loose with a string of epithets) and simply turned on her heel and walked out of the room. , my father did teach me that it's always past five somewhere), wondering if that cute little waiter was gay or just very well groomed.

— BarbaraPA

  • She didn't say a word (though I would hardly have blamed her if she let loose with a string of epithets) and simply turned on her heel and walked out of the room.
  • , my father did teach me that it's always past five somewhere), wondering if that cute little waiter was gay or just very well groomed.
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She didn't say a word (though I would hardly have blamed her if she let loose with a string of epithets) and simply turned on her heel and walked out of the room.

We sat there, sipping our drinks with little pink umbrellas in them (for although it was only 3 p.m., my father did teach me that it's always past five somewhere), wondering if that cute little waiter was gay or just very well
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Hi,



As far as I'm concerned, all parenthetical expressions are interrupting. The degree of interruption is related to the degree of irrelevance to the main meaning of the sentence.

eg While I was grocery shopping today (by the way, I forgot to buy milk), a man was murdered in the store by a robber.



Clive
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