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Note 3 – The use of ‘brackets’ and ‘bracketing commas’

The rule is, don’t put the first bracket or bracketing comma in and then foolishly omit the second.  This could just annoy the reader and may give your writing a completely different meaning to the one you set out to give. I’ll start with a definition (as I happened to buy this book today!).  ‘Oxford A-Z … Continue reading

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