begin statement; statement; ... statement end;
The reserved word begin opens a begin ... end statement which joins several statements to one compound statement.
begin is defined in ISO 7185 Pascal and supported by all known Pascal variants.
program BeginDemo; begin if True then WriteLn ('single statement'); if True then begin { clamp statement1 ... } WriteLn ('statement1'); WriteLn ('statement2') end { ... to statement2 } end.