Average minimum and maximum temperature in Stockholm (fahrenheit) 1  The months June, July and August have a nice average temperature. 2  Cold season / winter is in the months January and February. 3  On average, the warmest month is July. 4  On average, the coolest month is January.
Parentheses and brackets are used to enclose and set off material from the main text. Although writers usually need only one set of parentheses or brackets at a time, for more complex material they may need an enclosure within an enclosure (referred to as a double enclosure in this post).
The only thing Tony could doâif he could do anything at allâwas to sit and wait for the test results to come in the mail. In this sentence, dashes are used because it seems informal and the clause inside the dashes needs some emphasis. The emphasis is added in order to show that Tony could do nothing in this situation. The writer could have used parentheses, but parentheses may have been too formal for this situation.