1. add details to a sentence
2. structure or meaning
3. will still make sense
4. as expected
5. a pair of commas
6. commas, round brackets or long dashes
7. The traffic’s terrible, as usual.
8. or so it seems
9. Rock music (or rock-n-roll) began in America.
10. Trump won the election

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1. A parenthetical expression is a word or words that

add details to a sentenc

are essential to a sentence
2. A parenthetical expression doesn’t change a sentence’s basic

punctuation or length

structure or meaning
3. If a parenthetical expression is cut from a sentence, the sentence

won’t make sense

will still make sense
4. "Global temperatures, as expected, are rising." The parenthetical expression is

as expected

are rising
5. In Question 4 above, which shows where the parenthetic begins and ends?

a set of quotation marks

a pair of commas
6. Which can separate a mid-sentence parenthetic from the rest of a sentence?

commas, round brackets or long dashes

commas, semi-colons or quotation marks
7. Which sentence includes a parenthetical expression?

The traffic’s terrible, as usual.

It isn’t always this bad, is it?
8. "She likes him very much – or so it seems." Which is the parenthetical expression?

very much

or so it seems
9. Which includes a correctly-punctuated parenthetical expression?

Rock music (or rock-n-roll) began in America.

Rock music, or rock-n-roll – began in America.
10. "Trump – as we all now know – won the election." Without the parenthetic, the sentence is

as we all now know

Trump won the election