Brackets

Interlinked Thematic Vocabulary Unit Nº074 Version 0.01

    Round

1. round brackets / parentheses 1 |n| are used to insert additional information in text. If you were to remove the brackets and the information inside, the text would still work.
2. "Set in the 17th century, The Three Musketeers (“Les Trois Mousquetaires” in French) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas."
3. "Although they are relatively common off Australia, California, South Africa and Mexico, great white sharks usually inhabit coastal waters where the water temperature ranges 12-24 degrees Celsius. They generally hunt by detecting the electrical fields (They can detect less than one billionth of a volt.) emitted by the movements of their prey."
4. round brackets / parentheses 2 |n| are used to denote singular or plural.
5. "For brevity, round brackets can be used show that a word could be either singular or plural."
6. "Please write the name(s) of your guest(s) in the section below."
7. "Ensure the rod(s) is(are) aligned with the top section."

      Square

1. square brackets / ellipsys 1 |n| are used to make the text clearer. Square brackets are used to add information that explains the text it follows. (The information is usually added by someone other than the original author.).
2. "Hedy Lamarr once said: “Most people save all their lives and leave it [their money] to somebody else.”
3. square brackets / ellipsys 2 |n| are used to Modify the Original Text. Often, square brackets are used to replace text in a quote to make the quote clearer for the reader.
4. "Alice Cooper famously said that “from the moment [he] leave[s] [his] house or hotel room, the public owns [him].”
5. “It [electricity] is really just organized lightning.”
6. square brackets / square brackets sic / ellipsys |n| the term “[sic]” is used to show that the word it follows featured in the original text. Often, “[sic]” is used to indicate that a grammar error in the text was written by the original author.
7. "The minister believed that his statement was “appropriate and did not undermine the moral [sic] of our troops.” (should be “morale” not “moral”)."
8. "Your demand for a “full compliment [sic] of men” cannot be met at this time. (should be “complement” not “compliment”)"
9. square brackets / ellipsys 4 |n| ellipsis is used to show text omitted from a quote. Ellipsis is usually written “…” or “[...]“.
10. "It’s no small irony that the government [...] ends up promoting precisely that which they would most like to repress. The ellipsis replaces “inevitably and invariably”.
11. "Andy Warhol is the only genius…with an IQ of 60. (The ellipsis replaces the words “I’ve ever known” in this Gore Vidal quote.)"
12. square brackets / ellipsys 5 |n| one of a pair of marks, [ ], used to enclose written or printed material or to indicate a mathematical expression considered in some sense a single quantity.

      Curly

1. curly brackets |n| the symbols { }, used especially in mathematics and computer programs for showing that things written between them should be considered together.

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