parentheses - Number agreement when using “ (s)” for optional …
Are you asking whether the singular or plural should be used or whether or not to use the article when using (s)?
Where does the period go when using parentheses?
Where should the period go when using parentheses? For example: In sentence one, I use this example (which has a parenthesis at the end.) Should the period be inside, or outside of the …
Where does the question mark go — inside or outside the …
2 The question mark should go within the parentheses (I've copied this answer from a related later question asking much the same thing about exclamation marks and parenthesised text).
Is there any rule for the placement of space after and before …
Dec 1, 2010 · When writing in English (not a programming language or math), the rule is: put a space before the opening parenthesis, and either a space or a punctuation mark after the …
parentheses - What is the proper way to address quantities in a …
Aug 26, 2016 · If parentheses are used for the quantities in the list, then should they be used around all quantities in the document? Example: Please provide (6) apples and (7) 6 inch …
grammatical number - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
Feb 15, 2011 · Explore related questions nouns grammatical-number parentheses irregular parenthetical-plural See similar questions with these tags.
Double parentheses - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
Possible Duplicate: Is it acceptable to nest parentheses? Are you allowed to have parentheses within parentheses in English? Something like "(I did that because I wanted to (and the want …
(Parentheses (inside parentheses)) - English Language & Usage …
Sep 12, 2014 · As you saw in the title, parentheses inside parentheses don't look too good. But, gramatically speaking, is it correct to do this? For example: Go to this site (you should …
punctuation - Parentheses vs. double commas vs. dashes to …
Parentheses are used for digressions - things that could be completely removed without affecting the meaning. Commas and dashes are for setting off clauses that, while not vital to the …
What is the common name for brackets, braces, and parentheses?
I need to name a variable containing ()[]{}, what is the common name for all of them? Two side questions: parentheses is plural, or singular, or both? is abbreviating it as parens …