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Language and Writer’s Craft: Syntax
My Notes
Parenthetical Expressions
Parenthetical expressions can be effectively used to add voice to writing as
they add editorial comments to the text. When you incorporate parenthetical expressions in your writing, set them apart from the rest of the sentence by placing commas around them. Practice writing your own sentences by emulating the style of the examples below.
1. “The headmistress had been in India, I suppose, fifteen years or so, but she still smiled her helpless inability to cope with Indian names.”—Santha Rau, “By Any Other Name”
Practice: My brother had already been told, in fact, that he was never supposed to go into my room unless the house was on fire.
2. “I tell you, I had to go to the dictionary.”—Patricia Williams, “Ethnic Hash” Practice: Nevertheless, he still managed to smear peanut butter all over my
keyboard.
Check Your Understanding
Revisit a piece of your writing from this unit and revise it to include various types of phrases, or revisit a reading passage from this unit to identify phrases that might be present. Highlight and label the phrases you find.
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6 Explain parenthetical expressions as a short syntactic structure that can add voice to writing by incorporating relevant but nonessential information to a sentence. Ask students to write sentences using the modeled structure but incorporating other phrases such as however, nevertheless, in fact, therefore, for instance, consequently, for example, accordingly, moreover, hence.
Use the writing from Check Your Understanding to determine whether students understand and can use the different types of phrases correctly in their writing.
If students need additional help identifying and using different types of phrases correctly, have students work in small groups to reteach a type of phrase to the class. Be sure that all of the types of phrases are covered in the reteaching session. Use the Writing to Sources in future activities to extend grammatical/ writing instruction and identify opportunities to reteach or extend learning with the use of these phrases. Remind students to use these structures in their writing.
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