Thursday, March 5, 2009

Parentheses: Yuwin, Faye, Lauren, Sam, Jinmin

Put your examples here. Each student makes one comment before next Wednesday's class.

Posted by Brad at 3/05/2009 01:54:00 PM

5 comments:

Lauren said...

Banging the wall and screaming (unrestrained by his father, I might add), Sam was acting like a brat.

The parentheses in this example (taken from www.cliffnotes.com) is adding additional information. A comma is also used after the parentheses because the sentence calls for one anyways. For example, below is the sentence without the parentheses.

Banging the wall and screaming, Sam was acting like a brat.

Imitating the sample:

The game was over (an hour later than expected), but the crowd refused to leave.

March 10, 2009 at 9:07 PM
sam said...

Though the Curve shares the same patented Kappa platform as the Pontiac Solstice and Chevrolet Nomad (both concept cars as well), it has none of the same retro stylings of these two.

This example is taken from ca.autos.yahoo.com/p/1213/futuristic-sports-cars. The parentheses is used here for providing some extra information to the readers.

My sentence:

Airbus A380(the newest member of Airbus) has two full-length decks and can provide more than 500 seats.

March 10, 2009 at 11:40 PM
Jinmin said...

She met his family when they came on Parents Day (and was,in fact, surprised to find his dad balding and jovial,since Porter had talked about him with such revulsion).

Using Parentheses in this sentence(from The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks) gives more detail about the boy's father.

Imitating the sample:

The salesperson brought us to the magnificient car (was old timer, box on the wheels and painted in powder pink)

March 11, 2009 at 12:04 AM
yuwin said...

Example sentence using parentheses:

“But the insertion of a language (I’d not spoken and rarely heard growing up) into our lives seemed contrived, artificial, and destined to fail.”

In this sample, the parentheses is used to enclose some information that is not important enough in the text, but writer want to include nonetheless to make an idea more clear.

Here is my sentence using the same structure:

Now I am planning a trip for my family to visit a park in the United States this summer . I have to choose one from two of the most famous parks. They are Yosemite National Park (the first state park in the United States) and Yellowstone National Park (the first national park in the world). It is really hard to decide.

March 11, 2009 at 1:57 AM
Faye said...

Forty-three years after his death, Robert Frost (we remember him at Kennedy’s inauguration) remains America’s favorite poet.

The above sample was taken from www.nationalpunctuationday.com/parentheses.html
The parentheses used here is to remind readers who was Robert Frost.

Imitating sample:

My son loves Kung Fu (the kind in Jet Lee's movies), so he asks me to take him to a Kung Fu class.

March 12, 2009 at 7:58 PM

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