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It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable. That was true before the atomic bomb was made. What has been changed is the destructiveness of war. Give the reader a break.

If, in the context of the story, the antecedent of the pronoun is clear, leave it. The insertion of parentheses in quotes should be the exception rather than the rule. So, either:. Set up the quote in the precediing paragraph by introducing the person or the issue that caused the used of the parenthetical word or words , or.

Also note that because the partial quote in the first paragraph is not a complete sentence, it does not begin with a capital letter. Wrong: Mortis has used the surgical procedure for more than a decade. Correct: Mortis has used the surgical procedure for more than a decade. Smith has used the surgical procedure for more than a decade.

Besides, readers don't really hear them. What about writing in the vernacular — using slang and phrasing to reflect a person's personality, upbringing or geographic influences. Make sure you still treat the subjects with respect.

But, if in doing so, the quotes inadvertantly reflect poorly on the speakers in any way, don't do it. We've had incidents in the past and I've observed them in other newspapers in which the vernacular has been used with athletes, particularly African-American or Latin American athletes, and not with others in the same story. Also, the vernacular tends to show up in stories about lower-income groups i.

That, simply, is wrong. And in other cases, we'll fix the little gaffes by the advantaged, but not the disadvantaged such as the homeless or people in inner-city neighborhoods.. That's wrong, too. We should treat everyone the same, every time, all the time.. Apply rules evenly and fairly. And what about grammatical errors? A common complaint of faculty is that students use too many direct quotes in their papers instead of formulating their own ideas about the paper topic and using quotes rather sparingly as one way to substantiate their point of view on the topic.

Use summaries and paraphrases most often to support your own ideas. Use direct quotations only when the information is so well-presented or in the interest of clarity, emphasis, or accuracy , that you think the exact language of the source should be used. Remember that when you do choose to use direct quotations, you need to retain the exact wording, spelling, capitalization, and punctuation of the original source.

And remember, too, that just like when using a direct quotation, you must cite your source when summarizing or paraphrasing. Yes, you can leave out words you deem unnecessary in a quotation, but you can't take out words that will change its meaning. For example, if the quotation is "This movie is wonderful drivel," you can't quote it as "This movie is wonderful. 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. That is why it is called present. I can look up, and on the far side is another, better self, holding hands with Mercer—that's his name, my ex—and both of them are watching me flail over here, watching me from the life I'm supposed to have had.

When did it become impossible to get there from here? When did that bridge get burned? Every business I've ever started has been more of a curiosity and a kind of "What if What if I had been a cloud or a drop of rain! What if I had not been born! I would have loved to be anything but a human being. To live is to suffer. You are responsible for my being here.