Hello boys and girls out there. I'm Ma--

--and I'm Pa--

--Rentheses.

We're going to tell you about our favorite punctuation: parentheses.

Spot, can you saypa-renth-e-ses?

Pa-renth-e-ses. Parentheses.

That's a smart dog.

Good job, Spot.

You put parentheses around extra information.

That's right.

For instance, you could say--

You could say, Our silly dog buried the bone (in our living room!).

Oh, ho-ho. Oh, goodness. Or, See Spot (our dog) sleep.

I am kinda tired. snoring

That's very funny (you little puppy comedian).

Well, Spot. I've got a great way to keep you awake, so turn that radio up and listen!

We're Ma & Pa Rentheses
To add a thought, remember this
Parentheses group extra thoughts in sentences

Yes they do.

We're a way to say by the way
Consider this a side remark
And that's the role parentheses play

Hey! We are bent round added statements
Not part of the main sentence
We are there to show a side comment

We can also tell you years that someone was alive

Like who?

Well President Lincoln lived from 1809 to1865

Sometimes we'll see
We'll be used around a one-two-three
On a list of anything from A to Z

Now bring it home!

We're parentheses and we punctuate
When there's something more to state
We give extra information
To help you understand the situation

We look like an egg that's been split in two
And we love you

Ha, ha, ha!

Oh, Ma.

That was fun."