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Sparingly is good. Most commonly, a pair of parentheses is useful to set off a strong or weak interruption, rather like a pair of dashes or a pair of bracketing commas. As a rule we prefer parent...
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2019-12-08T02:22:17Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision
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2019-12-08T02:22:17Z (almost 5 years ago)
Sparingly is good. Most commonly, a pair of parentheses is useful to set off a strong or weak interruption, rather like a pair of dashes or a pair of bracketing commas. As a rule we prefer parentheses, rather than dashes or bracketing commas, when the interruption is best regarded as a kind of "aside" from the writer to the reader.
#1: Imported from external source
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2012-05-12T05:34:38Z (over 12 years ago)
Original score: 1