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No it's The most wonderful time of the year What

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No it's not christmas It's Time to talk about parentheses

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Does christmas come on You guys be serious All right

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so we use parentheses to enclose non restrictive or paren

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thet ical elements What Yeah Sounds complicated but those are

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just phrases or senses that can be removed from the

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main sentence without changing its meaning That means that if

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we see a parenthetical in a sentence we can grab

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it by its parentheses and just toss it away And

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the sentence will still work just fine That said not

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all parents articles are the same So we have to

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be careful about how we punctuate them from just because

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you can throw them away doesn't make them garbage And

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if you ever find yourself writing sentences that contain little

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bits of garbage well there might be something wrong with

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your point Sometimes our parent testicle is just a word

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or phrase rather than a complete sentence Like in this

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example In this case it gets enclosed in parentheses but

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we don't add any other punctuation So for a sentence

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like after swimming lessons every tuesday at four thirty i

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get a soda that parenthetical can go punctuation free On

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the other hand a parenthetical might contain an entire sentence

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If a parenthetical like this guy is in the middle

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of a sentence well it doesn't get any punctuation But

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if it's after a sentence it gets treated just like

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a normal sentence with a capital letter at the start

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and a punctuation mark at the end So in a

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sentence like he quacked and bit ducks aren't always great

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company until we ran away that parenthetical stays nice and

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unfunny actuated shakespeare right Maybe however if we tacked that

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parents out of gold right after the original sentence like

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so well we need to capitalize the first letter and

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throw a period at the end to get it into

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tiptop shape there But regardless of where you put the

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parenthetical we definitely don't recommend hanging out with docks They

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might not have any sharp teeth in those big but 00:02:03.208 --> [endTime] they can be vicious So frank frank

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