Parentheses

Time flies -- not as quickly as you’d like, when you study.
1. Remove the comma
2. Add dashes
3. Remove dashes
4. Both A and B
African art is neat, (though Chinese art is better).
1. Add dashes after “neat”
2. Remove parentheses
3. Remove the comma
4. Either B or C
Life comes in three stages -- bad, worse, terrible which are equally unbearable.
1. Add a comma after “terrible”
2. Add dashes after “terrible”
3. Add parentheses around “bad, worse, terrible”
He picked four things to eat he only liked one.
1. Add parentheses around “he only liked one”
2. Add dashes after “eat”
3. Add brackets around “he only liked one”
4. Either A or B
Kim hated the fact that, of the three men Jim, Frank, and Lenny only one actually remembered her name.
1. Add dashes before Jim and after Lenny
2. Enclose Jim, Frank, and Lenny in parentheses
3. Add commas before Jim and after Lenny
4. The sentence is correct.

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