Examples
- Billy-bob, a great singer, was not a good dancer.
- The phrase a great singer, set off by commas, is both an appositive and a parenthesis.
- A dog (not a cat) is an animal that barks.
- The phrase not a cat is a parenthesis.
- My umbrella (which is somewhat broken) can still shield the two of us from the rain.
- The phrase which is somewhat broken is a parenthesis.
- Please, Gerald, come here!
- Gerald is both a noun of direct address and a parenthesis.
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