When to use parenthesis?

Answer 1

ues parenthesis when u want to infrm readers t stop and read ur message

- Parentheses (or "parenthesis") are typically represented as semicircle marks used for written notation. They are usually used to show information that is an added note to a statement which needs to be tacked on to deliver a full understanding. As displayed above, they have been correctly used in this very paragraph.

Why were parentheses used there? When defining the term "parentheses" in this response, the word was spelled differently than it was in the original question. There was a need to explain this, so that the reader would understand that "parentheses" and "parenthesis" are the same word.

Because of this need, the information was put in parentheses so the reader would understand it was being "tacked on" to the regular sentence but was not supposed to interrupt the sentence. If parentheses were not used, here is how it would have looked:

- Parentheses are typically represented as semicircle marks used for written notation. The word spelled "parentheses" and the word spelled "parenthesis" are the same word.

This example shows how much longer an extra and unnecessary sentence would be, and so it is much easier to add the information in parentheses. One might think of parentheses like a thought bubble in a comic strip: it expresses crucial information that is not supposed to interrupt what the characters are saying. Another example:

"The American government attempted to bargain with and relocate Native American tribes to new areas in the 19th century (this was often unsuccessful)."

The last way that parentheses are commonly used is in citing sources. Very basically, if one were to read an article by "John Smith" for example and then quoted John Smith in his or her own report, then they would add parentheses to the end of the quote and write Smith's name there.

So in the end: they're usually used to add something important to understand without writing an entire extra sentence.