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

00:08

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

00:11

Does christmas come on You guys be serious All right

00:14

so we use parentheses to enclose non restrictive or paren

00:19

thet ical elements What Yeah Sounds complicated but those are

00:23

just phrases or senses that can be removed from the

00:26

main sentence without changing its meaning That means that if

00:30

we see a parenthetical in a sentence we can grab

00:33

it by its parentheses and just toss it away And

00:35

the sentence will still work just fine That said not

00:38

all parents articles are the same So we have to

00:41

be careful about how we punctuate them from just because

00:44

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

00:47

if you ever find yourself writing sentences that contain little

00:49

bits of garbage well there might be something wrong with

00:52

your point Sometimes our parent testicle is just a word

00:55

or phrase rather than a complete sentence Like in this

00:58

example In this case it gets enclosed in parentheses but

01:03

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

01:06

like after swimming lessons every tuesday at four thirty i

01:10

get a soda that parenthetical can go punctuation free On

01:15

the other hand a parenthetical might contain an entire sentence

01:18

If a parenthetical like this guy is in the middle

01:21

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

01:24

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

01:27

a normal sentence with a capital letter at the start

01:29

and a punctuation mark at the end So in a

01:33

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

01:37

company until we ran away that parenthetical stays nice and

01:41

unfunny actuated shakespeare right Maybe however if we tacked that

01:46

parents out of gold right after the original sentence like

01:49

so well we need to capitalize the first letter and

01:52

throw a period at the end to get it into

01:55

tiptop shape there But regardless of where you put the

01:57

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

02:00

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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