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What does it mean like when your reading an article and words are in [these]. Like for example "Jane had a [bad] day." or something? Thanks!
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brackets are used by journalists a lot when they put direct quotes from other people in their work. for example, if they interviewed britney spears and she said something that they wanted to quote, but that quote is unclear unless you heard the entire conversation, they will add a word or two to the quote, and put them in brackets because she didn't actually say them. that way the reader can understand the meaning of the quote, and the journalist specifies that they added that word to the quote... not britney spears.
they are also used if the quote refers to something that you wouldn't know about unless you heard the entire conversation. for example, if britney talked about her mom and then said "she is so good to me" and they wanted to use that quote, they can say "she [her mom] is so good to me" to help identify who she is talking about.
basically, brackets mean that whatever is in them wasn't in the original text/quote, and that it was added in by the current author for some reason! :) hope that helped, let me know if you have more questions! :)
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Square brackets are used mostly when quoting people to put in missing information or a bit of extra explanation.
For example, if I quoted you saying "It's been a great experience, I've really learned a lot here" people might not know what 'it' was, so I would write "It's [Advicenators] been a great experience, I've really learned a lot here." so everything would be clear.
Square brackets are also used like this: [...] to indicate omitted information. So if you said "It's been a great experience. I've learned about this and that, and that stuff too, and yeah that, well I've really learned a lot here" I could write "It's been a great experience [...] I've really learned a lot here" and just omit all the useless stuff in-between.
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