Query

[deborahlane]

Does anyone fancy giving me three different sentences: one that uses brackets/parentheses, one that uses dashes and one that uses parenthetic commas?

I am writing examples for my Year 6 class and am very tired from writing semi-colon and colon sentences.

Thanks very much!

Comments

[lea724]

Not sure if this is what you mean...

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The most common error in using parenthesis marks (besides using them too much) is to forget to enclose the parenthetical material with a final, closing parenthesis mark.

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For a field hand, the workday usually began before dawn and ended well after sunset, often with a two-hour break for the noon meal.

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She is, I believe, our best student…….

[deborahlane]

The brackets and commas, yes. (That's 1 and 3.) I didn't see dashes, but that's great. Thanks! :)

[lea724]

"two-hour break" was the dash one. Glad I could help.

[deborahlane]

Oh, no, that's a hyphen, but thanks.

*nods*