Parentheses
Quiz
Time flies -- not as quickly as you’d like, when you study.
- Remove the comma
- Add dashes
- Remove dashes
- Both A and B
African art is neat, (though Chinese art is better).
- Add dashes after “neat”
- Remove parentheses
- Remove the comma
- Either B or C
Life comes in three stages -- bad, worse, terrible which are equally unbearable.
- Add a comma after “terrible”
- Add dashes after “terrible”
- Add parentheses around “bad, worse, terrible”
He picked four things to eat he only liked one.
- Add parentheses around “he only liked one”
- Add dashes after “eat”
- Add brackets around “he only liked one”
- Either A or B
Kim hated the fact that, of the three men Jim, Frank, and Lenny only one actually remembered her name.
- Add dashes before Jim and after Lenny
- Enclose Jim, Frank, and Lenny in parentheses
- Add commas before Jim and after Lenny
- The sentence is correct.