Please help, this homework is due tomorrow!!!?

Question

Okay, if you have parentheses at the end of a sentence, are you supposed to put the end punctuation inside the parentheses or outside of them? Please help me, english is like...my worst subject and my teacher is really mean and he will be PO-ed if I don't have this done!!!!!

Answer 1

It goes like this

"blah blah blah blahblah."

or

(blach, blach, and blach).

Answer 2

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.) If the material within your parentheses is written as a separate sentence (not included within another sentence), punctuate it as if it were a separate sentence.

Thirty-five years after his death, Robert Frost (we remember him at Kennedy's inauguration) remains America's favorite poet.

Thirty-five years after his death, Robert Frost (do you remember him?) remains America's favorite poet.

Thirty-five years after his death, Robert Frost remains America's favorite poet. (We remember him at Kennedy's inauguration.)

If the material is important enough, use some other means of including it within your text—even if it means writing another sentence. Note that parentheses tend to de-emphasize text whereas dashes tend to make material seem even more important.

hope this helps-

Answer 3

inside

Answer 4

Definitely inside.

Answer 5

you have to put the punctuation inside of the quotes for the sentence to end because if you dont, the sentence will go on.

Answer 6

Outside if it's like a period, if its a quote put quotation marks inside.

Answer 7

outside of the parentheses :) or is it inside never mind do not listen to me i don't know what i am talking about.

Answer 8

If the material in parentheses is part of the main sentence, the period is outside.  If the material inside the parentheses is a complete sentence, the period is inside the parentheses.

Answer 9

inside  

Answer 10

definitely outside of parenthesis at the end of a sentence

Answer 11

*parenthical phrase means a phrase with parenthesis...jsut in case you didnt know

If a parenthetical phrase falls within a sentence, the ending period, or other punctuation, should be placed outside the ending parenthesis; however, if the parenthetical phrase follows a complete sentence (after a period), the period for the parenthetical phrase goes inside the ending parenthesis.

Answer 12

read fourchordwonder's answer.  :]  

Answer 13

outside the parenthesis

Answer 14

It depends on what is inside the parentheses.  Take a look at the rules on the source I listed below.

Answer 15

definitely outside (like this).