There is an extended grammar notation in common use. In this notation, square and curly braces in production bodies are metasymbols (like —>• or |) with the following meanings:i) Square braces around a grammar symbol or symbols denotes that these constructs are optional. Thus, production A —> X [Y] Z has the same effect as the two productions A X Y Z and A -± X Z.ii) Curly braces around a grammar symbol or symbols says that these symbols may be repeated any number of times, including zero times. Thus, A —>• X {Y Z} has the same effect as the infinite sequence of productions A-*X,A->XYZ,A-*XYZYZ, and so on.Show that these two extensions do not add power to grammars; that is, any language that can be generated by a grammar with these extensions can be generated by a grammar without the extensions.
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