Timeline for Which tense should a verb take when parentheses could alter the tense?
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| Sep 26, 2013 at 15:16 | comment | added | James Webster | Having undergone investigation into Orwell's Rules, an extra point in my books has been gained. (I couldn't find a way to get rule 5 into that sentence!) | |
| Sep 26, 2013 at 15:07 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | I think most people would write For desert, we had a (very fattening!) ice-cream sundae. The 'whatever is left on omitting the parenthetical must still be totally acceptable' rule is surely tweakable where no confusion will occur, in line with the spirit of Orwell's Sixth Rule. | |
| Sep 26, 2013 at 14:55 | comment | added | Tim Lymington | Cheat. ...what space it can or will take up, what space it may take up,how much space we need. | |
| Sep 26, 2013 at 14:52 | vote | accept | James Webster | ||
| Sep 26, 2013 at 14:27 | comment | added | StoneyB on hiatus | If it causes you this much thought it will do the same for your readers: somebody's going to be annoyed whatever you do. The answer then, is just write what you mean and drop the cute parentheses. | |
| Sep 26, 2013 at 14:26 | answer | added | bib | timeline score: 4 | |
| Sep 26, 2013 at 14:20 | history | asked | James Webster | CC BY-SA 3.0 |