In a sentence suce as this, where would the "."period go- inside the ( ) or outside ( ). or at the end of the sentence?
e.g. I went fishing with my friends last Thursday (at our usual place). or
place.) or Thursday.
2006-07-21 02:46:49 · 10 answers · asked by Dave 5 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
Outside. And for future reference, it's grammar.
2006-07-21 02:51:12 · answer #1 · answered by ★Fetal☆ ★And ☆ ★Weeping☆ 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Here let me make your post over for you.
"Dumb question regarding grammar." "In a sentence such as this, where would the period go. Inside the brackets (.) or outside of the brackets (). or at the end of the sentence?"
"e.g. I went fishing with my friends last thursday (at our usual place). or place.) or thursday."
I hope you don't mind. I did that to correct a lot of your grammar and spelling errors in your whole question. (I wouldn't do that usually, but this is a grammar question, so I assume you are just learning.)
To answer your question though, you could need to put the punctuation at any of those places depending on the situation. I will use your sample sentence.
You really don't need brackets for your example sentence. Your sentence works fine simple as: I went fishing with my friends last thursday at our usual place.
However, if you insist on brackets they are optional. I went fishing with my friends last thursday (at our usual place).
You could put as well this: I went fishing with my friends last thursday. (We went to our usual place.) See how there is a full sentence both outside and inside the brackets, thus needing punctuation both outside and inside of the brackets.
In conclusion I guess you put the punctuation where the sentence actually ends. If the brackets need to be closed to complete the sentence put punctuation on the outside but if the sentence is complete on the inside of the brackets put the punctuation in there.
2006-07-21 10:02:08 · answer #2 · answered by Jennifer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your first example is correct. Outside the parenthesis and at the end of the sentence. However, you don't really need to make the phrase "at our usual place" a parenthetical, so leave them out and you don't have the issue.
2006-07-21 15:34:28 · answer #3 · answered by okbyajc 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is the right way
I went fishing with my friends last Thursday (at our usual place).
The period always goes after the parenthesis
2006-07-21 09:59:43 · answer #4 · answered by Samir 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
after the bracket, as in your first option. the bracketed statement is a parenthetical adverbial clause modifying fishing, i.e. it's part of the sentence. The sentence could be rewritten by putting the bracketed statement after "fishing" without the brackets.
2006-07-21 11:57:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
End of sentence. The parenthetical phrase is not a complete sentence.
2006-07-21 09:51:41 · answer #6 · answered by ringocox 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The end of the sentence.
2006-07-21 09:52:03 · answer #7 · answered by brown.gloria@yahoo.com 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you know what a spell check is?
Whats suce?
Whats Grammer?
You got one thing right though, you are dumb.
2006-07-21 09:51:43 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
at the end of the sentence
2006-07-21 09:51:36 · answer #9 · answered by lidipiwi 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No punctuation in parenthesis.
2006-07-21 09:50:34 · answer #10 · answered by ceprn 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋