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and here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by parentheses...

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which sentence uses parentheses correctly an [Boy with a smartphone]

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here are your potential answers

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alright we'll get you started on the right foot or on the left foot if you're [Man balancing on one foot]

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lefty... when part of a sentence is enclosed in parentheses you should be

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able to cut it out and still have a fully functioning sentence if losing the [Man chopping sentence]

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parentheses means getting a garbage sentence well then the whole sentence

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should be thrown out not even recycled.....

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let's clip the parentals out of these choices and see which ones still has a

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leg to stand on Starting with A - if we remove the parenthetical

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here we're left with Jake's house which was really had the best pool in the [Jake with at a swimming pool]

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world pretty awful excuse for a sentence no matter how many water slides Jake's

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pool has so A is out...out what about C without the parenthetical we get Martin's friend

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by a shark was a great dancer this sentence mean that Martin's friend is standing beside

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a shark and also a great dancer? [Martin's friend dancing near a shark]

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Something's not right C is out what about D well.. once we chuck this parenthetical we're

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left with Clarissa explained it all didn't even if explain it all happens

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to be Clarissa's nickname it would not be a great nickname and we would not have a

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great sentence so D is out.... What about B here we have Kevin grew up to be a great

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chef oh my goodness we actually have an OK sentence Kevin grew up to be a great

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chef and now one's talking about how he ate ants as a kid [Kevin working as a chef]

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except us....To be fair Kevin wants people

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to stop talking about his ant-guzzling past, he should probably chuck all the

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evidence in the ocean where only the fish will know his secret [Kevin throws evidence into ocean]

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