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Periods inside brackets- or not.

When should I leave a period inside a bracket-ed comment. If the entire sentence is bracket-ed?

(He never did care about them.)

Do I place a period inside a bracket if it is only a partial comment?


He just turned away and ignored them-(he never did care about them.)

Some help????

Re: Periods inside brackets- or not.

The period inside the bracket is correct in the first case.
In the second example, I wouldn't use brackets. If you really want to, the period would go outside the bracket.

Re: Periods inside brackets- or not.

Can you tell me the use of three periods inside of this kind of Bracket?

[...]

I see it every now and then. At the end of a sentence AFTER the period.

I also see particular of what I can only describe as an "interjection" type of word within these brackets.

EX:

The editor submitted his article back to him and told him that there were certain words he should not use [ORWELL!]- which perplexed him more because of the inane boring subject matter being discussed in the article.

I don't know if I used it (grammar or brackets) correctly.

Is there a difference between these "()" and these "[]" kinds of brackets?