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By multimastery
@multimastery (1195)
United States
June 8, 2008 7:26am CST
Just wondering... Does the parenthesis suppose to come before or after a period.
3 responses
@mentalward (14691)
• United States
8 Jun 08
That depends. If you have a sentence with something in parentheses inside of the sentence, but at the end of it, it would end like this: ).
If you have a complete sentence inside of parentheses, it would end like this: .)
i.e.
I like sunshine (and sometimes rain).
(I like sunshine and sometimes rain.)
I was an English major, and a proofreader/copy editor so I know a few things.
Hope this helps!
@multimastery (1195)
• United States
14 Jun 08
I believe you are correct based on other references that I've looked into. Thanks to All who took the time to respond!
@bournecaindelta (2477)
• India
8 Jun 08
After the dot. Period .. lol.. Yeah It surely comes after the period
bourne
@s2a2n2 (1732)
• India
8 Jun 08
Its more of the place of the use. I mean to say if you open the parenthesis outside the sentence then the period will be coming first to parenthesis. But most of the cases will be ). cheers