Block level vs. Inline tags

Question

What is the point of ‘inline’ in the description of the tag categories?

Answer 1

Inline elements stay on th same line. E.g. span, a, em
Block level move to the next line e.g. div, p, section.

Answer 2

Simple terms, inline tags are can be applied to a single line of statement or part of the text. It won't add line break before and after. But Block level tags applies line break so it always starts a new line.. and can extends its functionality to a block of code....

Edit: this explains more clrealy... See
https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_blocks.asp