A helpful Google search tip is to type your desired search term, then space, then the minus symbol and the word you want to ban from your search results. For example, looking for information on the Outer Banks, not the latest Toyota?
When looking to include two things in a search together, these terms can be used to curate a more accurate list. Searching within quotes only finds results that include all of those words, in that specific order. Searching without quotes populates results that include the words you typed, but necessarily not in the order you searched.
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This is helpful for so many reasons, but especially when in a pinch or a hurry. For a somewhat more obscure but just as helpful tool, click on the blue audio icon to learn how to pronounce that word. You can add information to a quotation in order to define a word or phrase, to clarify the quotation's information, or to make a brief comment on the quotation's information. The information that you add always should be brief; reserve your major comments on the quotation's information to be placed after the quotation ends.
Show any added information by placing that added information in square brackets within the quote. Parentheses indicate that the added information is part of the direct quotation itself and not your own. Holmes stated that "The chair on which the body was found was covered in a formerly yellow, now a brownish, blood-stained tabaret [upholstery with satin stripes]" 5.
In this case, you'd need to define "tabaret" for a general reading public. In this case, you'd need to clarify the person to whom the "he" refers. In this case, the writer provides a brief comment on the information to let the reader know that two major critics of Crane agree.
If you have a long quotation which you want to display indented in the middle of the page, you do not need to place quotes around it, though you should make sure that you identify it explicitly as a quotation in your main text. Here is an example cited from G. Carey's famous book on punctuation, Mind the Stop Carey : I should define punctuation as being governed two-thirds by rule and one-third by personal taste.
I shall endeavour not to stress the former to the exclusion of the latter, but I will not knuckle under to those who apparently claim for themselves complete freedom to do what they please in the matter. It would not be wrong to enclose this passage in quotes, but there is no need, since I have clearly identified it as a quotation, which is exactly what quotation marks normally do. No punctuation should be used if it's not doing any work. Occasionally you may find it necessary to interrupt a quotation you are citing in order to clarify something.
To do this you enclose your remarks in square brackets never parentheses. Suppose I want to cite a famous passage from the eighteenth-century French writer Alexis de Tocqueville: These two nations [America and Russia] seem set to sway the destinies of half the globe. The passage from which this sentence is taken had earlier made it clear which two nations the author was talking about.
My quotation, however, does not make this clear, and so I have inserted the necessary information enclosed in square brackets. Some authors, when doing this, have a habit of inserting their own initials within the square brackets , preceded by a dash. Thus, my example might have looked like this: These two nations [America and Russia — RLT] seem set to sway the destinies of half the globe.
This is not wrong, but it is hardly ever necessary, since the square brackets already make it clear what's going on. There is one special interruption whose use you should be familiar with.
This happens when the passage you are quoting contains a mistake of some kind, and you want to make it clear to your reader that the mistake is contained in the original passage, and has not been introduced by you. The mistake can be of any kind: a spelling mistake, a grammatical error, the use of the wrong word, or even a statement which is obviously wrong or silly. Here are some examples, all of which are meant to be direct quotations: We have not recieved [ sic ] your letter.
The number of students are [ sic ] larger than usual. The All Blacks won the match with a fortuitous [ sic ] try in the final minute. The last dinosaurs died about 60, years ago [ sic ]. If the CTRs differ among the three match types for high-traffic keywords, peel the underperformers and stick them into their own ad groups. See more about keyword matching in Chapter 5.
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