- a variation of parenthetical.
parenthetic
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That nearly 100-year-old publication instructs sentence drafters to “enclose parenthetic expressions between commas” and to “place a comma before and or but introducing an independent clause.”
From Slate ● Jan. 28, 2014
Sir: The clue to their success is tucked unobtrusively into one parenthetic expression that you use: "Russian is more precisely phonetic than English."
From Time Magazine Archive
If a parenthetic expression is preceded by a conjunction, place the first comma before the conjunction, not after it.
From A Foreword to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition by Juliet Helena Lumbard James
In it the second Rhyming Doublet is divided by a kind of parenthetic Rhythmic Solitaire.
From Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study by Thomas Washington Talley
Yes," said Mrs. Poyser, returning from a parenthetic glance at the cows, "that's allays the reason I'm to sit down wi', when you've a mind to do anything contrairy.
From Adam Bede by George Eliot
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