Which sentence uses parentheses correctly? I need to turn the computer (off and on) before it started to work.
Her mother painted the room her favorite colors (pink and yellows).
I ordered a (muffin and hot chocolate) at the shop.
The boy went to the playground with his father (because he wanted to) play on the slide.

Her mother painted the room her favorite colors (pink and yellows).

Explanation:

You use parentheses to insert extra information that a statement would still be correct without. So you can't have parentheses around parts of a sentence that, if removed, would make the sentence incomplete.

The answer I chose here doesn't need to say that the mother's favourite colours are pink and yellow for the sentence to be complete, so it is stated in parentheses. Removing the part in parentheses would not make the sentence incomplete because the sentence still works without it.

In all the other statements, removing the part in parentheses would have the statements make no sense, which means that the parentheses are incorrectly placed.

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