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Because Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a child prodigy (he began writing music at age five), he was able to compose an astounding number of masterpieces in his brief thirty-five years.
A trick I use to figure out if the parentheses belong in a sentence is by imagining that the words located in the parentheses play the part of a prepositional phrase.
When we find a prepositional phrase in a sentence, we can delete it from the excerpt and the paragraph/sentence phrase will still make sense. Let's see if that's the case:
Because Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a child prodigy, he was able to compose an astounding number of masterpieces in his brief thirty-five years.
Does this sentence make sense? Is it logical and does it flow? If so, you've found your answer.
A trick I use to figure out if the parentheses belong in a sentence is by imagining that the words located in the parentheses play the part of a prepositional phrase.
When we find a prepositional phrase in a sentence, we can delete it from the excerpt and the paragraph/sentence phrase will still make sense. Let's see if that's the case:
Because Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a child prodigy, he was able to compose an astounding number of masterpieces in his brief thirty-five years.
Does this sentence make sense? Is it logical and does it flow? If so, you've found your answer.
because Wolfgang amadeus mozart was a child prodigy (he began writing music at age five), he was able to compose an astounding number of masterpieces in his brief thirty-five years.