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Avianvirus Posted 21 years ago
Speech & Pronunciation

Pronunciation of "(" and ")"

Hello,

Could anyone teach me the pronunciation of both "(" and ")" when you read English sentences?

Example;

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Why is this post become double spaced?? Could anyone teach me the way to fixe it?

Regards.

Thank you in advance.
  

Top answer

Items in brackets are asides, extra information, not essential to the meaning of the sentence. Here it has been used to clarify the phrase 'volunteer teachers' for you. If you are reading it you need to treat it as a stronger version of a comma, so introduce a pause before and after to indicate that this is 'outside' the regular part of the sentence.

— Nona the brit

  • Items in brackets are asides, extra information, not essential to the meaning of the sentence.
  • Here it has been used to clarify the phrase 'volunteer teachers' for you.
  • If you are reading it you need to treat it as a stronger version of a comma, so introduce a pause before and after to indicate that this is 'outside' the regular part of the sentence.
  • It is very common to drop the voice down a little when reading this sort of thing or to give them a bit of extra emphasis to make them sound a little different to the rest of the sentence.
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Items in brackets are asides, extra information, not essential to the meaning of the sentence. Here it has been used to clarify the phrase 'volunteer teachers' for you. If you are reading it you need to treat it as a stronger version of a comma, so introduce a pause before and after to indicate that this is 'outside' the regular part of the sentence. It is very common to drop the voice down a lit
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Thank you, nona the brit.

It is now clear.

Regards,
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