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What is another name for parenthesis?
A
Borders
B
Brackets
C
Quotation marks
D
Apostrophe
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -In British usage they are known as round brackets (or simply “brackets"), square brackets, curly brackets, and angle brackets; in American usage they are respectively known as parentheses, brackets, braces, and chevrons.

Detailed explanation-2: -In this page you can discover 30 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for parenthesis, like: brackets, enclosure, braces, excursus, bracket, semicolon, digression, aside, divagation, whitespace and punctuation.

Detailed explanation-3: -Generally, ‘parentheses’ refers to round brackets ( ) and ‘brackets’ to square brackets [ ]. However, we are more and more used to hearing these referred to simply as ‘round brackets’ or ‘square brackets’. Usually we use square brackets-[ ]-for special purposes such as in technical manuals.

Detailed explanation-4: -Synonyms of parenthesis. : an amplifying (see amplify sense 1) or explanatory word, phrase, or sentence inserted in a passage from which it is usually set off by punctuation. explained further in a parenthesis. : a remark or passage that departs from the theme of a discourse : digression.

Detailed explanation-5: -Parentheses (singular parenthesis) are felt to be stronger than a comma and similar in weight to an m-dash (-). Parentheses are sometimes called ‘round brackets’. Other punctuation can sometimes be substituted for parenthesis, including.

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