Let’s take three simple ideas and arrange them with differing punctuation to see how their effect changes. Imagine an informal email or letter in which you want to say something about these ideas: flying to New York, bad weather, a delayed flight. We call these ideas and not thoughts because there is no one doing …
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Punctuating the Parentheses
Think for a moment where we find ourselves when we want to explain something to someone else. If we set out to do this in writing, we are composing what is called expository prose, sentences and paragraphs designed to expound a subject cleanly and clearly to a particular reader for a particular purpose. A good …