English Punctuation: Parentheses

Parentheses are used quite commonly in the English language. When you are writing, it is absolutely essential that you know how and when to correctly use parentheses. In this video, Faby teaches you about how to use parentheses so that your sentence meanings are both clear and fluent.

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I'm sorry to say, but your first sentence, "They have written several books (sixteen by 2013.)" is incorrectly punctuated. The basic rule is that if you were to remove everything within the parentheses, the sentence must maintain the integrity of both its grammar and punctuation. In your example, you would lose the period and violate this rule. Furthermore, a period is only used within parentheses if the contents are themselves a complete sentence. At that point, you end the previous sentence with a period and then append your idea. (It would look like this.)