In many books I see this (I'm giving you a real example):
"[n]o government can do these things alone", or
"[t]he ballot is both a right and a privilege...[which] must be protected."
Can someone explain why would the author isolate the first letter of the first word (in both examples) using this [ ] sign. It just doesn't make any sense to me.
Or, as is the case in the second example, the whole word [which] has been isolated. Why?
The second query pertains to Sir Churchill's famous quote "Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put". Was he serious? Is it allowed in English grammar to change the place of the preposition, and doesn't it render the whole sentence incorrect?
2007-11-12
11:24:47
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James26
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