His favorite flavor was chocolate. Original sentence: She drove 60 on the highway to town. This could mean 60 miles per hour, 60 kilometers per hour or something different. Sentence with words added by an editor to help the reader understand: She drove 60 [miles per hour] on the highway to town. First Name. Round brackets - - are used in a similar way to commas when we want to add further explanation, an afterthought, or comment that is to do with our main line of thought but distinct from it.
Many grammarians feel that the parentheses can, in fact, be replaced by commas in nearly all cases. Home Welcome to EF. Programs See everything we do.
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Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search. I found the terms bracket and brace used interchangeably. Is there a difference, and what is it? Mathematics has several more subtle variations in addition and is formalized more than other fields.
This gives you a one-word name for any of those common symbols. And don't get me started on the problems of angle brackets for grouping To provide a non-text counterpoint, "bracketing" in photography is taking multiple exposures around a given value which value—white balance, ISO, aperture, etc.
This shows the use of "bracket" to mean "surrounding," which lines up nicely with the text symbols above. I am not sure about other contexts, but in texts about programming you will often find these terms used as follows:. Someone using the term braces for square brackets is making a mistake, because most people will assume that person means curly brackets.
So, these terms are not interchangeable, although braces are a type of bracket.
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