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Question:

Place the full stop before of after the bracket?

He went home. (Stop.) Go homeor He went home. (Stop). G home?

Answer:

If the brackets enclose the entire sentence then the full stop stays inside the bracket. If they enclose words in the middle of a sentence then full stop stays outside the bracket.She wore a red dress (her sister wore a green one.) She wore a red dress (and her sister a green one). The evening they went out.

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