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
Parenthetic Expressions.—The use of long parenthetic expressions within a sentence is also a frequent cause of lack of clearness.
From News Writing The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories by Spencer, M. Lyle (Matthew Lyle)
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 James, Juliet Helena Lumbard
The most admirable discourses from the merely literary point of view on taste, Shakespeare, and the musical glasses, with some parenthetic reference to the matter in hand, are not criticism.
From Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by Saintsbury, George
