Using punctuation effectively means that your reader can make sense of your writing, It can also help create a particular effect to give your writing depth.
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These are sometimes called 'parentheses' and can be used to add extra information from the writer, or add description to a sentence:
The boy (a young boy who had never left home) looked terribly pale.
If you are using brackets towards the end of a sentence, the full stop to complete the sentence goes outside of the brackets:
Neharika wore the blue shoes (her sister, Amrita, had already chosen the red ones).