BASH: Bracketing Parameters

BASH: Bracketing Parameters Simply, whats the fundamental difference between $param and ${param} ?
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"There is none. It's for echoing a variable immediately followed by a string.

For example, if you have $param, but you want to have right after it, ""lbs""

echo ""${param}lbs""

Where as

echo ""$paramlbs""

Would look for an incorrect variable name"