Sentence examples for is parenthetical from inspiring English sources

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is parenthetical

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A word or phrase within parentheses

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The "he said" is parenthetical, so in this construction "missing" seems to modify "elbow" — not what we intended.

The format of citations depends on the journal, but usually in scientific literature, it is parenthetical and not footnoted.

Because the phrase introduced by "as well as" is parenthetical, the subject is simply "An Abu Sayyaf leader" and the verb should be singular — "was also said".

(As this is written, "as a result" is parenthetical and "perhaps" seems to modify "he often says" — which is not what we meant).

The text citation is parenthetical, which means the source reference is surrounded by parenthesis after you have used a quote, or after you have paraphrased something from a book.

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And he is, parenthetically, not just our ambassador, but a very good personal friend of mine -- we've been close for years -- and a man who is astonishingly free of resentment and demons, given what he went through.

Pictures by Kehinde Wiley and Kurt Kauper are in idealizing modes, but Mr. Wiley's Renaissance-style profile of a man in a hooded sweatshirt is parenthetically titled "Mugshot," and Mr. Kauper's confectionary portraits of famous hockey players satirize sports kitsch.

The brackets around [Gil]'s name continuously function to keep the character distanced from the text even at the sentence level, [Gil] is parenthetically set off from the narrative.

With the help of self-serving former Democratic pols, Peterson has been able to present his hard-right views as some sort of "bipartisan" consensus -- when the genuinely bipartisan consensus among voters is parenthetically opposed to his own.

Sundays are a good day to do all that because they should be parenthetical to real life.

As we've noted before, phrases like "as well as," "coupled with" and "along with" are parenthetical and do not make the subject plural.

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