If you're starting a sentence with a quote that does not start with a capital letter, you can put the first letter of the quote in brackets to indicate that it was not originally capitalized.
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* round brackets, open brackets or parentheses: ( ) * square brackets, closed brackets or box brackets: [ ] * curly brackets, squiggly brackets, swirly brackets, braces, or chicken lips: { }
Square brackets are used for citations in formal pieces of text. Instead of using normal brackets, the square brackets signal something that has been added in after publishing.
Square brackets are used inside regular parentheses, in a sentence.
* round brackets, open brackets or parentheses: ( ) * square brackets, closed brackets or box brackets: [ ] * curly brackets, squiggly brackets, swirly brackets, braces, or chicken lips: { }
They are a form of punctuation. Here are some examples of brackets: ( ) - parentheses [ ] - brackets or square brackets { } - braces or curly brackets < > - angular brackets