4.9. Parentheses and Brackets / Punctuation / English Writing

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Let’s talk about parentheses and brackets.

Parentheses are punctuation marks to set off extra or incidental information from the rest of the sentence.

Parentheses are used to set off parenthetical, supplementary, or illustrative words.

They enclose figures or letters used for enumeration.
Round brackets are called parentheses.

There are also square brackets to indicate editorial corrections or explanations in quoted matter.

Square brackets are used to replace parentheses within parentheses.

Please, note, that in a manuscript a line cannot end with the first half of a pair of parentheses or brackets.

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