Questão 96755

Assess the following statements regarding the advanced use of parentheses and brackets.

I. Parentheses are used to enclose information that is supplementary or tangential to the main point of a sentence; if the parenthetical phrase is a full sentence, its terminal punctuation should be placed inside the closing parenthesis.

II. Brackets [sic] are used to indicate that an error or unusual phrasing in a quotation was present in the original source and is not a transcription error on the part of the current writer.

III. When nesting parenthetical remarks, it is standard practice to use brackets inside parentheses, as in: 'The report (which was later discredited [see Appendix B]) initially caused a panic.'

Which of the statements are correct?