Brackets, dashes and commas for extra information
You learn to put brackets around extra information.
How to do the test
- Find words that give extra information.
- Take them out.
- If the sentence still makes sense, put brackets, dashes or commas around them.
Put brackets around the extra information. My brother who is ten loves football.
- Take it out and the sentence still works: My brother loves football.
- Brackets go around the extra information.
- Dashes or commas can do the same job.
- Who is ten is the extra information.
More examples
Put brackets around the extra information. My cat a fluffy ginger one sleeps all day.
- Take it out and the sentence still works: My cat sleeps all day.
- Brackets go around the extra information.
- Dashes or commas can do the same job.
- A fluffy ginger one is the extra information.
Put brackets around the extra information. The film which I saw twice was funny.
- Take it out and the sentence still works: The film was funny.
- Brackets go around the extra information.
- Dashes or commas can do the same job.
- Which I saw twice is the extra information.