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Square brackets (just called 'brackets' in American English) are mainly used to enclose words added by someone other than the original writer or speaker typically in order to clarify the situation. EXAMPLE: He [the police officer] can?t prove that they did it.

 

To type a bracket on a computer hit the bracket key (right after ?P? on your keyboard) will give you an opening bracket and the key next to that one will give you the closing bracket. Easy peasy. You?re most likely to see and use brackets when dealing with quoted text.

 

What are square brackets? Square brackets often just called brackets in American English are a set of punctuation marks that are most often used to alter or add information to quoted material. Square brackets come in pairs as [ and ].

 

Brackets are punctuation marks used in pairs for a variety of reasons but most commonly to add a clarification. There are four common types of bracket: parentheses () square brackets [] braces {} and angle brackets <>.

 

Brackets are symbols that we use to contain "extra information" or information that is not part of the main content. Brackets always come in pairs?an "opening" bracket before the extra information and a "closing" bracket after it. There are two main types of bracket: round () and square [].

 

Square brackets are used usually in books and articles when supplying words that make a quotation clearer or that comment on it although they were not originally said or written.

 

[ and ] are square brackets in both British and American English but are also more simply brackets in the latter. [2][1] An older name for these brackets is "crotchets".