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Snarf Posted 14 years ago
Grammar
Period in or outside of brackets
If you're writing a paragraph and one of the independent clauses of the paragraph is in brackets, how do you know whether to put the period at the end in front of the last bracket or after it?
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You are mixing terminologies. "Period" is American English for the dot at the end of a sentence, and "full stop" is British. What the British call "brackets" Americans call "parentheses".
- You are mixing terminologies.
- "Period" is American English for the dot at the end of a sentence, and "full stop" is British.
- What the British call "brackets" Americans call "parentheses".
- You punctuate inside parentheses as if the parentheses were not there.
- ) If a parenthetical independent clause is within a sentence, you can either capitalize and punctuate it as a sentence or not as you choose, but not is usual (this is an example).
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You are mixing terminologies. "Period" is American English for the dot at the end of a sentence, and "full stop" is British. What the British call "brackets" Americans call "parentheses".
You punctuate inside parentheses as if the parentheses were not there. (If a stand-alone sentence is parenthetical, it takes a period just like always and needs none after the closing parenthesis.) If a
You punctuate inside parentheses as if the parentheses were not there. (If a stand-alone sentence is parenthetical, it takes a period just like always and needs none after the closing parenthesis.) If a
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Oh, so you're saying that if it is a stand-alone sentence, it doesn't matter what is being said in conjunction with the other sentences, or why it's there; the period is placed at the end, before the closing bracket. The reason I was asking about this is because I've seen it both in and outside of it, and so it made me think that there was a grammatical rule that I did not know about regarding par
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SnarfI've seen it both in and outside of itIt would help if you could cite or link to examples. The variations are legion.
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