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If you add commas to your first example, it will carry the weight of the parens without needing the larger pause and extra words. The quote marks and the generic wording of ThisCo make it clear you...
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#4: Attribution notice removed
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2019-12-13T12:00:34Z (about 5 years ago)
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#3: Attribution notice added
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2019-12-08T05:04:44Z (about 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/21080 License name: CC BY-SA 3.0 License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision
If you add commas to your first example, it will carry the weight of the parens without needing the larger pause and extra words. The quote marks and the generic wording of _ThisCo_ make it clear you're using placeholders. > My friend, "Chuck," who worked for a vendor, "ThisCo," decided he'd had enough. Subsequent references don't need the quotes. > Chuck had been working for ThisCo under a manager, "Kate," for 10 years, but when Kate left and "Vern" came on board, conditions quickly soured. Vern was the nephew of ThisCo's CEO, and it showed.
#1: Imported from external source
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2016-02-23T18:47:11Z (almost 9 years ago)
Original score: 9