diologue in a stroy!!!?

Question

what does it mean(an example):
" i love to [read] many of the books i have written"

or
"I can never really tell if [what] i am looking at'


i have read many random sotries where they jave done this [ ] around random words.....why??!!!

Answer 1

it means it's not a direct quote, it's a paraphrase.

look up the word "paraphrase" at dictionary.com

also, try using it for your posts as well?

Answer 2

It's where a word is implied but not said so the author puts it there so you'll understand the quote. For example if it were a news story where someone was discussing, shall we say, George W Bush, the quote might look like this "I think that he {the President} made a big mistake in invading Iraq."

So the word 'he' is embellished by adding the words {the President} so the reader knows about whom the quote is made as the person saying it does not mention the president by name or title.

Answer 3

Well, when you are quoting something, it means that you are adding words so the context can be understood.


Okay, so pretend we are talking about Christmas, in an interview. I may say, "Oh, I love it!" When you quote it, you may use a quote in a paper and want to quote me, but you can't just pretend I said I love Christmas, so, to make it obvious, you would say, "'Oh, I love [Christmas]!' she exclaimed.'


That is a very basic example, of course.
It's more likely to be something a long the lines of someone using "he" in a sentence, and when you quote it, you want to make sure the reader knows who "he" is, so in the place of "he" you add [Mark]. The brackets are to let everyone know that you are clarifying.

Hope this helps!

Answer 4

The bracketed words are added by the writer to show they should have been used (grammatically speaking) to form a proper sentence,

Note that this is usually found when someone has been quoted.

Answer 5

The first one -maybe the author is saying that his book is a lot of fun to be read

Answer 6

basically, its the writer twisting/changing the words of the person who they are quoting....filling in the blank that wasn't stated during that sentence b/c both parties knew what the topic is is most common.

Answer 7

brackets mean that something has been added that the person that is quoted did not say or is in a different tense

Answer 8

that should usually be in an interview, like when the interviewie says "it" they replace the word "it" with what they were talking about, but put it in []'s because they didn't actually say that.

Answer 9

what is [stroy]?

Answer 10

idk