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DarkReapersGrim Posted 14 years ago
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I have two questions:
1) How do I say "etc." in the middle of a sentence? I'm trying to write a sentence that says something similar to this, "Racial, ethnic, gender, etc., discrimination towards the African American population was rampant in the US.
Also,
2) When do you capitalize the first letter of a quote? Do you just take the quote and copy it exactly, meaning if the first letter in the quote is capitalized then capitalize it, but if it's not capitalized, then you don't capitalize it?
1) How do I say "etc." in the middle of a sentence? I'm trying to write a sentence that says something similar to this, "Racial, ethnic, gender, etc., discrimination towards the African American population was rampant in the US.
Also,
2) When do you capitalize the first letter of a quote? Do you just take the quote and copy it exactly, meaning if the first letter in the quote is capitalized then capitalize it, but if it's not capitalized, then you don't capitalize it?
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Hello, DRG—and welcome to English Forums. " in the middle of a sentence? -- The main problem is that it makes a rather lumpy sentence, but you may use it as you have it ('etc', period, comma) if you like.
- Hello, DRG—and welcome to English Forums.
- " in the middle of a sentence?
- -- The main problem is that it makes a rather lumpy sentence, but you may use it as you have it ('etc', period, comma) if you like.
- ' if it is not clear to the reader what might be meant by that.
- In this case, this reader has trouble thinking of other kinds of discrimination applicable to Afro-Americans.
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Hello, DRG—and welcome to English Forums.
1) How do I say "etc." in the middle of a sentence? I'm trying to write a sentence that says something similar to this, "Racial, ethnic, gender, etc., discrimination towards the African American population was rampant in the US.-- The main problem is that it makes a rather lumpy sentence, but you may use it as you have it ('etc', period, co
1) How do I say "etc." in the middle of a sentence? I'm trying to write a sentence that says something similar to this, "Racial, ethnic, gender, etc., discrimination towards the African American population was rampant in the US.-- The main problem is that it makes a rather lumpy sentence, but you may use it as you have it ('etc', period, co
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Mister MicawberAs Dr Smith states, "[ B]alls are indeed round!". This indicates that the original text has words before '*****', as for instance "The totality of ***** are indeed round!"That's fine. You could also do it this way As Dr Smith states, "[...] ***** are indeed round!"
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