What's the use/meaning of the @ character in variable names in C#?

Question

I discovered that you can start your variable name with a \'@\' character in C#. In my C# project I was using a web service (I added a web reference to my project) that was

Answer 1

If we use a keyword as the name for an identifier, we get a compiler error “identifier expected, ‘Identifier Name’ is a keyword” To overcome this error, prefix the identifier with “@”. Such identifiers are verbatim identifiers. The character @ is not actually part of the identifier, so the identifier might be seen in other languages as a normal identifier, without the prefix