Correct usage for parentheses, and mark up "expression" in more places.

From Bug Hunting in PR 42286.
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.\" $NetBSD: test.1,v 1.26 2009/05/06 08:26:43 wiz Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: test.1,v 1.27 2009/11/10 18:19:46 wiz Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1991, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
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.\"
.\" @(#)test.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 5/31/93
.\"
.Dd May 5, 2009
.Dd November 10, 2009
.Dt TEST 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm test
utility evaluates the expression and, if it evaluates
utility evaluates
.Ar expression
and, if it evaluates
to true, returns a zero (true) exit status; otherwise
it returns 1 (false).
If there is no expression, test also
If
.Ar expression
is not given,
.Nm test
also
returns 1 (false).
.Pp
All operators and flags are separate arguments to the
.Nm test
utility.
.Pp
The following primaries are used to construct expression:
The following primaries are used to construct
.Ar expression :
.Bl -tag -width Ar
.It Fl b Ar file
True if
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or
.Ar expression2
are true.
.It Cm \&( Ns Ar expression Ns Cm \&)
True if expression is true.
.It Cm \&( Ar expression Cm \&)
True if
.Ar expression
is true.
.El
.Pp
The
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utility exits with one of the following values:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It 0
expression evaluated to true.
.Ar expression
evaluated to true.
.It 1
expression evaluated to false or expression was
missing.
.Ar expression
evaluated to false or was missing.
.It \*[Gt]1
An error occurred.
.El