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Article #1127Question on parenthetical style
From: Marc Schwarz
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 00:17
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 00:17
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What is the preferred style for parenthetical expressions? I have seen: 1. Mary had a little lamb (and the doctor died of shock). 2. Mary had a little lamb (The doctor died of shock.). 3. Mary had a little lamb. (The doctor died of shock.) This is actually two questions: Should parentheticals be dependent or independent clauses? In addition, should independent parentheticals be embedded within another independent clause? (This presumes paretheticals should, in most cases, be independent clauses.) In practice, I tend to use the first example, the notion being that an independent clause can stand on its own (no matter how tangential it is). Marc. -=- schwarz@cs.yale.edu AKA schwarz@spunky.cs.nyu.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!gumby!yale!yale.edu!not-for-mail From: schwarz-marc@cs.yale.edu (Marc Schwarz) Newsgroups: misc.writing Subject: Question on parenthetical style Date: 17 Nov 1992 19:17:05 -0500 Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept., New Haven, CT 06520-2158 Lines: 22 Distribution: na Message-ID: <1ec221INNi41@GIRAFFE.ZOO.CS.YALE.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: giraffe.zoo.cs.yale.edu