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How to pronounce “parenthesis”
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Pronunciation guide for parenthesis
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of parenthesis with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- A stealthy reimagining of urban public space
the High Line became a parenthesis in the day for doing nothing
- Definition summary
- A clause, phrase or word which is inserted (usually for explanation or amplification) into a passage which is already grammatically complete, and usually marked off with brackets, commas or dashes.
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How to pronounce parenthesis
A stealthy reimagining of urban public space
the High Line became a parenthesis in the day for doing nothing
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “parenthesis”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- A clause, phrase or word which is inserted (usually for explanation or amplification) into a passage which is already grammatically complete, and usually marked off with brackets, commas or dashes.
- Either of a pair of brackets, especially (mainly US) round brackets, ( and ) (used to enclose parenthetical material in a text).
- (rhetoric) A digression; the use of such digressions.
- (mathematics, logic) Such brackets as used to clarify expressions by grouping those terms affected by a common operator, or to enclose the components of a vector or the elements of a matrix.
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