Braces
Punctuation marks braces {}
No, we’re not referring to the devices dentists torture your teeth with, we’re talking about the punctuation marks that are used to put parenthesis within parenthesis:
She is going to marry the hairy-knuckled guy (she loves him [of course]).
Square braces are not really all that common in most writing so don’t get too worried by the whole parenthesis within parenthesis thing if it’s giving you a headache. You do need to know them if you’re a computer programmer or mathematician, but that’s for a whole different blog.
Slash
Punctuation mark slash /
Slashes are most often used to distinguish between two terms such as “he/she”, “period/full-stop”. They are usually used in place of the words “or” or “and.” They can also used in abbreviations (i.e., w/, w/out, and/or). One final use of the slash is to separate lines of poetry when they are reproduced in a solid block of text:
I have a spelling checker,/It came with my PC./It plane lee marks four my revue/Miss steaks aye can knot sea.
Punctuation marks braces {}
No, we’re not referring to the devices dentists torture your teeth with, we’re talking about the punctuation marks that are used to put parenthesis within parenthesis:
She is going to marry the hairy-knuckled guy (she loves him [of course]).
Square braces are not really all that common in most writing so don’t get too worried by the whole parenthesis within parenthesis thing if it’s giving you a headache. You do need to know them if you’re a computer programmer or mathematician, but that’s for a whole different blog.
Slash
Punctuation mark slash /
Slashes are most often used to distinguish between two terms such as “he/she”, “period/full-stop”. They are usually used in place of the words “or” or “and.” They can also used in abbreviations (i.e., w/, w/out, and/or). One final use of the slash is to separate lines of poetry when they are reproduced in a solid block of text:
I have a spelling checker,/It came with my PC./It plane lee marks four my revue/Miss steaks aye can knot sea.
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