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Re: Syntactical Meanderings
Posted By: Sam, on host 12.25.1.128
Date: Wednesday, April 19, 2000, at 07:23:00
In Reply To: Re: Syntactical Meanderings posted by eric sleator on Sunday, April 16, 2000, at 18:57:22:

> Parenthetical clauses should be placed inside a sentence. If they are at the end of the sentence, you do it like this:
> Bob married Barb (she was a cute tall redhead).

I would tend to do it this way: "Bob married Barb. (She was a cute tall redhead.)" But your way is valid.

If what's inside the sentence isn't a complete sentence, it cannot stand alone like that: "Bob married Barb (a cute tall redhead)." is the only option for that one.