The Parentheses

Parentheses are punctuation marks that we use to set off material that could be omitted without changing the meaning of our sentence.

Examples:

• That man over there is my uncle (the one with big moustache under his nose).
• He had to retake his exam. (He had failed it the first time.)

	Remember that "parentheses" is an irregular plural of "parenthesis". That's why we say: "there is one parenthesis", but "there are two parentheses"!