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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: | ||
- | * [[grammar_mood|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 or moniker (vocative), usually with [[mood_imperative|imperatives]] (includes curses). For example: " | + | * Calling a name or moniker (vocative), usually with [[mood_imperative|imperatives]] (includes curses). For example: " |
- | * 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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* "He cut his head, //steady and swift strike it was//, with his axe" = " | * "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// |
Of course, such long sentences as the last two belong to fiction literature and do not occur in normal conversation, | Of course, such long sentences as the last two belong to fiction literature and do not occur in normal conversation, |