Which sentences correctly use parentheses? select two options.

we went to the state fair (held in the state capital) for the first time this year.
for my birthday, my parents got me tickets to hamilton (my favorite
my sister has homework for three classes tonight (math, english, and biology).
the student body voted to select (the person) who would get the best teacher award.
(when he made the hot chocolate) my brother left out the most important ingredient.

We went to the state fair (held in the state capital) for the first time this year.

For my birthday, my parents got me tickets to Hamilton (my favorite musical!).

Explanation:

Parentheses are used to add some extra information, such as a comment, an example, or a short explanation. It allows a writer to give us additional information, but this information is not very important for the sentence idea; the sentence will still make sense and have a complete thought even if we omit everything that is inclosed in parentheses.

We don't put any punctuation mark before parentheses and put a comma after the closing parenthesis only if the sentence needs a comma (or a point) anyway.

Only in these 2 sentences, we see the correct use of parentheses:

We went to the state fair (held in the state capital) for the first time this year. - This sentence will still have a complete thought without info in parentheses, the information is not very important: We went to the state fair for the first time this year.

For my birthday, my parents got me tickets to Hamilton (my favorite musical!). - The info in parentheses here are not very important also, we will understand the needed information even without it: For my birthday, my parents got me tickets to Hamilton.

As for other sentences that use parentheses wrongly:

My sister has homework for three classes tonight (math, English, and biology). - there shouldn't be parentheses, this sentence has a list of classes, it is needed information. The correct way to write this sentence - My sister has homework for three classes tonight: math, English, and biology.

The student body voted to select (the person) who would get the Best Teacher award. - The information in parentheses here is very important for a sentence, without it there won't be a complete thought. That's why the correct way to write it - The student body voted to select the person who would get the Best Teacher award.

(When he made the hot chocolate) my brother left out the most important ingredient. - There is a wrong way to use parentheses, we shouldn't omit the dependent clause of a sentence, it will lose its main idea. The correct way to write this sentence - When he made the hot chocolate my brother left out the most important ingredient.

I hope it helped you :)

We went to the state fair (held in the state capital) for the first time this year.

For my birthday, my parents got me tickets to Hamilton (my favorite musical!).

Explanation:

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quite an interesting way to teach topic sentences, because the answer to this question is the best definition of a topic sentence that one can present, it is as if answering the questions taught you how to do it, this is some real teaching, it is terribly well-done.

the topic sentence in this paragraph is:

topic sentences writers stay on track and keep a paragraph from becoming an aimless collection of sentences about an idea.

which incidentally tells you what a topic sentence should be.