The parenthetical thought can be set off by "em dashes" (long dashes) for which hyphens have to suffice here (they may or may not have spaces):
One day, my dad and his brother - stop me if you've heard this story - started out on what they thought would be an uneventful drive to work.
One day my dad and his brother - stop me if you've heard this story - started out on what they thought would be an uneventful drive to work.
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There should be a comma between the two independent clauses: "It started to rain, so I took a cab."
"has started" is the simple predicate.
The murky water began to seethe when the propellers started to turn on the boat. "Seethe" actually means "boil", and in this case the water looks like it is boiling.
Yes, it is.
he started to accelerate.
The sentence would benefit from adding a comma after "brother," a comma after "story," and a period at the end to create better clarity and structure.
One day my dad and his brother - stop me if you've heard this story - started out on a fishing trip.
No, because it's not started off with a capital letter and there's no end punctuation. It would be a sentence if it was written like this: "She will have completed the homework by Tuesday."
There should be a comma between the two independent clauses: "It started to rain, so I took a cab."
Here is a sentence with the word resume. I started running but I caught a cramp so I stopped, and I had to resume about 15 minutes later.
you're probably drunk when you started falling in love with your older brother's hot boyfriend AND when you wrote this, because, obviously, you misspelled the whole sentence incorrectly.
She would not be convinced (I had tried my best) so I let her go without selling her the subscription.Parentheses (a form of punctuation) should be used to separate a clause within a sentence. Commas, another type of punctuation can also be used (but I prefer to use brackets).This, he thought, would work perfectly (although he had thought such things before) and with great confidence he hurried off to get started.
Paul Klee had no brother. Who started this rumor?
The man hit his brakes hard so he didnt run over the dead animal. My brother started to break my moms new vase.
Did you know, I didn't realize it until I started this paper, that this poem is often quoted?
Yes notch did but when his brother died he started haunting the game
we all started at the same time