How to use brackets

What are brackets?

Brackets can be used to add additional information to a sentence.

Here is a sentence:

Albert the alien was in charge of the wrecking ball.

You can use brackets to add more information to this sentence:

Albert the alien (who had no training) was in charge of the wrecking ball.

The sentence has too still make sense without the words inside the brackets.

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Activity

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