Brackets Flashcards
What are brackets mainly used for?
To include explanatory words or phrases within quoted language.
“Lew Perkins, the Director of Athletic Programs, said that Pumita Espinoza, the new soccer coach [at Notre Dame Academy] is going to be a real winner.”
If you are quoting material and you have to change the capitalization of a word or change a pronoun to make the material fit into your sentence, what would you use brackets for?
You use the brackets to enclose that changed letter or word(s).
Espinoza charged her former employer with “falsification of [her] coaching record.”
To show that misspelled words or inappropriately used words are not your own typos or blunders but are part of an accurately rendered quotation, what would you enclose within brackets?
You enclose sic within brackets. It is always italicized.
Reporters found three mispelings [sic] in the report.
If you italicize or underline words within quoted language that was not italicized or underlined in the original, you can note that change how?
Not the change in brackets within the sentence or paragraph.
It was the atmosphere of the gym that thrilled Jacobs, not the eight championship banners hanging from the beams [italics added].
Can you use brackets to put parenthetical material inside parenthetical material?
Yes.
Chernwell was poet laureate of Bermuda (a largely honorary position [unpaid]) for ten years.
