Use parentheses [ ] to include material that you want to de-emphasize or that wouldn't normally fit into the flow of your text but you want to include nonetheless. If the material within parentheses appears within a sentence, do not use a capital letter or period to punctuate that material, even if the material is itself a complete sentence. A question mark or exclamation mark, however, might be appropriate and necessary. We verified his law degree none of us thought he was lying about that but not his billion-dollar verdict against Exxon how gullible did he think we were?
Please submit the following four items with your application: 1 a cover letter, 2 a resume, 3 a college transcript, and 4 a list of professional references.
Short translations in unquoted text can be placed in parentheses. Use brackets for translations in quoted text. His knowledge of Portuguese is limited to obrigado thank you and adeus goodbye.
If there is uncertainty about the year, a question mark should follow it. Note that an en dash , rather than hyphen, is used between the years. On the first use of an abbreviation or acronym that might not be understood by your readers, the full term can be provided in parentheses. Should the words inside a set of parentheses be capitalised? For example Improve this question. Jimi Oke Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Jimi Oke Jimi Oke Would it be wrong , however, to capitalise the words inside the sentence?
JFW: Apologies for the belated response. You may decide to capitalize any words within a parenthetic sentence for any stylistic reason, and that would not be deemed wrong. Also, there may be words that have to be capitalized, e.
The same rules of capitalization in sentences hold for parenthetic ones, as well.
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