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====== Parenthesis ====== | ====== Parenthesis ====== | ||
In rhetoric a **// | In rhetoric a **// | ||
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Typical applications of parenthesis include: | Typical applications of parenthesis include: | ||
- | * Modal meaning with words like " | + | * [[grammar_mood|Modal]] meaning with words like: " |
- | * To express ordinary behavior with phrases like "as usual", | + | * To express ordinary behavior with phrases like "as usual", " |
- | * Source of information expressed with phrases like " | + | * Source of information expressed with phrases like " |
- | * The way of expressing thoughts and attitude to it: " | + | * The way of expressing thoughts and attitude to it: " |
- | * Calling a name (vocative), usually with imperatives. For example: " | + | * Calling a name or moniker |
- | * The call to another person in conversation to draw attention without naming it: "do you understand (that)...", | + | * The call to another person in conversation to draw attention without naming it: "do you understand (that)..." |
- | * Function similar to conjunctions, | + | * Function similar to conjunctions, |
- | * To show speaker' | + | * To show speaker' |
- | * Express strong feeling, including [[interjections]]: | + | * Express strong feeling, including [[interjections]]: |
- | * Introductory phrase: "Once upon time...", | + | * Introductory phrase: "Once upon time..." (= " |
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====== Interpositional clause ====== | ====== Interpositional clause ====== | ||
- | Any longer dependent clause describing the person or action of main sentence may be used similarly as parenthesis. For example: | + | Any longer dependent clause describing the person or action of main sentence may be used similarly as parenthesis. Many modifier and adverbial dependent clauses inserted in the middle of the sentence belong to this category. For example: |
- | * " | + | * " |
- | * " | + | * "He cut his head, //steady and swift strike it was//, with his axe" = " |
- | * "I was trying to hold on the rock with my frozen hands - I already knew that they started to rot of cold burn - in a desperate | + | * " |
+ | * "I was trying to hold on the rock with my frozen hands -- //I already knew that they started to rot of cold burn// -- in a desperate | ||
- | Of course, such long sentences, as the last two, belong to fiction literature and do not occur in normal conversation being not very suitable for Orcs' speech. | + | Of course, such long sentences as the last two belong to fiction literature and do not occur in normal conversation, being not very suitable for Orcs' speech. |
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====== Punctuation ====== | ====== Punctuation ====== | ||
- | Such phrases should be separated by punctuation marks in written speech. But Tengwar | + | Such phrases should be separated by punctuation marks in written speech. But [[Tengwar]] and [[Cirth]] are limited with them. It's suggested to use "two vertical dots" (means comma but look like colon) in Cirth. |