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The number in Parenthesis is how many posts to get to an Iraq comment.
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” The number in Parenthesis is how many posts to get to an Iraq comment. Tundra”
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The illustration on the cover of In Parenthesis is a detail of a drawing of Jones's that belongs in the collection of the Tate Britain.
A Different Stripe: 2008
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The illustration on the cover of In Parenthesis is a detail of a drawing of Jones's that belongs in the collection of the Tate Britain.
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Now, my introduction of this, in the middle of my narrative, is what the hypercritics call a Parenthesis, which certainly betrays no superficial portion of literary perusal on my part, if you could at all but understand it as well as Father Finnerty, our
Going to Maynooth Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831
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Specifically, from his eyes-wide-open treatise on love in Parenthesis, a.k.a. the "half chapter" in
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed REVIEWED BY ZSUZSI GARTNER 2011
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"Parenthesis" can then be kept to its proper use, as the name for the words themselves which form the break in the sentence.
"Stops", Or How to Punctuate A Practical Handbook for Writers and Students Paul Allardyce
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Camp, the gentleman who introduced "Parenthesis," a staff doctor, from
Christmas Comes but Once A Year Showing What Mr. Brown Did, Thought, and Intended to Do, during that Festive Season. John Leighton 1867
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There is evidence, too, that some of the old-school grammarians didn't take themselves nearly so seriously as might be thought: John Ash's "Grammatical Institutes" (1763), for example, contains this marvelous explanation: "A Parenthesis (to be avoided as much as possible) is used to include some Sentence in another."
Grappling Grammarians Barton Swaim 2011
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Parenthesis, returning to oral exchange and distribution of knowledge.
Jeff Jarvis: Davos 2011: Too Little Content Jeff Jarvis 2011
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