Writing coach and CUNY Journalism Press editor Timothy Harper tells us how to properly use ellipses, em dashes, and parentheses. FULL TRANSCRIPT: The default, typically, when we’re using ...

We call the extra words that have been added a parenthesis. Parenthesis can also ... Find out more about using brackets in this video. An important point is that if you leave out the words in ...

Here are a few punctuation marks we might use or come across, what their proper names are ... One bracket is called a parenthesis, and parentheses are used to talk about a pair of them.