Significats de open parenthesis en anglès

You can use parentheses with a vertical bar to group alternative operations.

The numbers in parentheses show the number of times each form occurred.

Without the parentheses, it would match cad or ab or at instead

Some of these have been transliterated, with their modern equivalents in parentheses.

But how to set about it after all this preamble of parentheses?

Like a secret. I add the parens, although they don't work with the caps.

"Je vous donne," quoth her ladyship, "oui jour, pour vous fatigay parfaictement de vos parens fatigans")-" Ihaveno need to read the letter," says she.

When elements of a sentence in parentheses are buried inside a longer sentence the punctuation picks up after the close paren.

Like a secret. I add the parens, although they don't work with the caps.

The pattern in the round brackets must match the value itself.

Entries in round brackets should be read as if they were footnotes, typically giving background information or editorial speculation.

(Transcriber's Note: Equivalent sound shown within round brackets.)

The lettered footnotes in round brackets, (a), (b), etc, are Johnson's, and are to be found at the end of each Note.]

Editorial comment in entries of this class is either enclosed in round brackets, as above, or set in "italic" type, as in this entry:

You can also have a newline after the close -parenthesis of the parameter list and before the left brace.