Hi, my dear teachers,
Firstly, sorry.
I posted my above question on another discussion mistakenly.
Secondly, I read on English Club's grammar about "brackets":
https://www.englishclub.com/grammar/sentence/parenthetical-expression.htm
It says: "Brackets are the next most common form of punctuation for parentheses."
It looks like "brackets" and "parentheses" are the same, am I correct?
If not, what is the difference between them, please?
Thanks in advance for helping me,
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Dear Danny,
Thank you and best wishes,
Dear Danny,
Thank you very much.
I got "parentheses" and "round brackets"s are the same.
One question, please:
In which cases, can we use curly brackets { } in a sentence, please?
Thanks in advance and best wishes,
Dear Danny,
Sorry.
My question is about parentheses, not parenthesis.
Cambridge Dictionary says about parentheses: "the symbols () that are put around a word, phrase....
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/parentheses
Thus, here are my questions:
1. What is the difference between "brackets" and "parentheses"?
2. What does "round brackets" mean in the above link (.......)?
3. what is the name of this sign [ ] in English language, please?
Thanks a lot and best wishes,