It's permissible to delete a word or phrase from a direct quotation as long as you don't change the meaning of the quote. To indicate your deletion in the quote, you would
A. use a hyphen in place of the deleted word or passage.
B. use an ellipsis to designate a deletion.
C. write the word "deleted" in that space.
D. mark the deleted space with a comma before and after the deleted word.
A?
Yes, B.
No.
the answer is b guys not a and surely not d
Correct! To indicate a deletion in a direct quotation without changing the meaning of the quote, you would use an ellipsis.
An ellipsis is a punctuation mark consisting of three dots, typically placed without spaces between them ( . . . ). This ellipsis is used to indicate that some material has been omitted from the quotation.