Take the 2-minute tour ×  When and how do we use the different
kinds of brackets/parentheses — (){}[] — while writing English
(not code)?  share|improve this question  closed as not a real
question by Kris, Kristina Lopez, RegDwigнt Jan 19 '13 at 11:23
Closing as too broad and for complete lack of research. Could be
considered general reference as per
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brackets. In fact the accepted answer just
quotes select bits from that page, while leaving lots of things
out. –  RegDwigнt Jan 19 '13 at 11:31 ...Except my answer never
did get accepted. Sadface =( –  Southpaw Hare Jan 19 '13 at
22:17  4 Answers 4  up vote 4 down vote accepted  Curved
brackets, or parentheses (like these), are used to set off
different kinds of interruption to a sentence. Square brackets
[like these] are used in a quotation when the words contained in
them are not part of the quotation, but are necessary for the
sense. Curly brackets, or braces {like these}, are rarely used
in normal writing. They are mostly reserved fo