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Vocative Case

There are many kinds of parenthetical phrases.
Dammit, sir, it is your duty to get married.
There is a particular kind that you describe as being
"in the vocative case"; but you do not provide a simple name (a grammatical term) for this kind of parenthetical phrase. I wish you would.
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Latinus@juno.com

Re: Vocative Case

I'm not sure it is parenthesis.

Here's more on the vocative case.