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Meanings of parentheses in English
Punctuation: ()
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Usage of parentheses in English
1
You can use parentheses with a vertical bar to group alternative operations.
2
The numbers in parentheses show the number of times each form occurred.
3
Without the parentheses, it would match cad or ab or at instead
4
Some of these have been transliterated, with their modern equivalents in parentheses.
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But how to set about it after all this preamble of parentheses?
6
Assignment statements use the syntax illustrated in the example, using parentheses as delimiters:
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The italics in the text, not those in parentheses, are mine.
8
The estimates for the year ending this March are in parentheses.
9
The figures in parentheses are the number of times each has been found.
10
The price code appears in parentheses before the NTIS order number.
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Precedence ambiguities can be resolved by using parentheses where doubt occurs.
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The number of times each form occurred is given in parentheses.
13
Author's original notes are in brackets, those by the digitizer are in parentheses.
14
Next, in parentheses, was regret at having spent so much money in Yokohama.
15
For photographs of architecture give name of city followed by country in parentheses.
16
If used at all with the parentheses, it should follow the closing parenthesis.
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United States of America
Common
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