Select the true sentences. parentheses enclose added material. parentheses enclose numerical figures that confirm written numbers. parentheses are always used for numbers in lists of words or ideas. parentheses enclose explanatory material. parentheses are used to set off main ideas. a parenthetic expression is a group of words, an idea, that is not closely related to the rest of the sentence.

Parentheses enclose added material.

Parentheses enclose numerical figures that confirm written numbers.

Parentheses enclose explanatory material.

A parenthetic expression is a group of words, an idea, that is not closely related to the rest of the sentence.

Explanation:

Parentheses come always in pairs and they are a literary device used by the author to give additional information about a certain topic written in the sentence. It could be a word, a phrase or even a number, but the main characteristic of parentheses is that the information must not be related grammatically with the rest of the sentence.

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the correct answers are:

c. “never in the history of his people had a man married a woman who spoke a different tongue.”

d. “‘it has never been heard,’ was the verdict of an old man speaking a few weeks later.”

e. “this man had come with others to commiserate with okeke.”