What is the correct place for a full stop with brackets?

Question

Is this right: (text.)

or this: (text).

Answer 1

On the road, just before the train tracks (you know, the parallel ones), a full stop is prudent, else the brackets smash the bonnet on the car.

And, it's easy to remember this: the punctuation in the sentence always follows the closed parend (always, dear).

Rick is correct about the period (full stop), being inside the parentheses if they enclose an entire sentence. However, placing an entire sentence in parentheses is like wearing Prada with a Gucci bag: it shows a serious lack of panache and style.

(Bureaucrats put sentences with parentheses, especially when they are being pedantic concerning policy and the budget.)

Really, does any writer desire to be so identified?

Easy rule, no exceptions, write in style.

Move along, now, there's nothing here for you to see (anymore).

Answer 2

It depends on the way the brackets are used.

Members (who are fully paid up) will be entiled to a free drink.

No full stop as the brackets are within the main sentence and contain additional information, which does not form a complete sentence.

Members, who are fully paid up, will be entitled to a free drink (except spirits).

Full stop outside the brakets because they contain additional information which is not a complete sentence.

Members will be entitled to a free drink. (This only applies to fully paid up members.)

Full stop within the brackets. The main sentence has already ended. The brackets contain additional information which forms a complete sentence.

Answer 3

Cant believe 3 people said put it outside the brackets!! Punctuation should always be put inside the brackets, even if signifying the end of a sentence.

Answer 4

If the bracketed info is 'attached' to a sentence, the full stop comes after the parentheses (like this).

(However, when the entire message is within the parentheses like this, it is the sentence, so the full stop is within them, too.)

Answer 5

brackets usually denote extra information that could be read as part of a larger sentence. it's something additive not stand-alone, so you still have to complete the 'trigger' sentence. yeah.. the second one.

Answer 6

After the parentheses