KEYWORDS Items in capital letters are Basic keywords. Keywords are a required part of the statement syntax, unless they are enclosed in brackets. placeholders Items in lowercase are placeholders for information you must supply in the statement (such as a filename$). The QBasic syntax uses data-type suffixes for placeholders that must be a specific data type. Placeholders that can be more than one data type do not have data-type suffixes. [optional item] Items inside square brackets are optional. {choice1 | choice2} Braces and a vertical bar indicate a choice between two or more items. You must use one of the items in the statement unless the braces are enclosed in square brackets. item, item, ... A horizontal three-dot ellipsis means more of the preceding items can be used in a single-line statement. Beginning keyword A vertical three-dot ellipsis is used to describe . multiline statements (or block-structured . statements). It means that other statements can be . used between the beginning and the end of the block. Ending keyword