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AssignmentMultiple Choice

Capitalization, Punctuation, and Spelling

Question 7 • CA-Common Core English 11 A-CR - VHS

Which quotation correctly uses an ellipses?

Answer
A
“The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above. . . .”
B
“The brave men . . . who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to detract.”
C
“The brave men . . . who struggled here. . . .”
D
“The brave men . . . far above our poor power to add or detract.”

Explanation

An ellipsis shows that words have been omitted from a quotation. Choice B omits “living and dead” while keeping the remaining words in a grammatical, meaningful order: “The brave men who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to detract.” The other choices either leave the quotation grammatically incomplete or omit words in a way that makes the remaining sentence unclear.

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