Round brackets

Round brackets

1. What are round brackets called?
2. What is a () called?
3. How do you use round bracket in a sentence?
4. What are brackets used for?

What are round brackets called?

Round brackets (also called parentheses, especially in American English) are mainly used to separate off information that isn't essential to the meaning of the rest of the sentence. If you removed the bracketed material the sentence would still make perfectly good sense.

What is a () called?

Fun fact: one of them is called a parenthesis, and as a pair, the plural are parentheses. Parenthesis literally means “to put beside,” from the Greek roots par-, -en, and thesis. Outside of the US, these can be called round brackets.

How do you use round bracket in a sentence?

When round brackets are used to insert information at the end of a sentence, the end punctuation of the sentence is placed outside the bracket. For example: All the crew survived (even the dog).

What are brackets used for?

Brackets (parentheses) are punctuation marks used within a sentence to include information that is not essential to the main point. Information within parentheses is usually supplementary; were it removed, the meaning of the sentence would remain unchanged.