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Faiv Posted 21 years ago
Grammar
Punctuation
Why do we put square brackets in the initial letter of a word. "[L]et" as in the following example.
"More often than not, robins are year-round residents...
[L]et hummingbirds and orioles be your harbingers of spring."
(Scott Shalaway, Charleston Gazette, January 30, 2005)
"More often than not, robins are year-round residents...
[L]et hummingbirds and orioles be your harbingers of spring."
(Scott Shalaway, Charleston Gazette, January 30, 2005)
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Since you posted this several days ago, you may not come back to check. But I'll answer your question anyway, since I looovvvve punctuation. The original writer did not capitalize the L, but whoever was quoting him left out a portion (that's what the ...
- Since you posted this several days ago, you may not come back to check.
- But I'll answer your question anyway, since I looovvvve punctuation.
- The original writer did not capitalize the L, but whoever was quoting him left out a portion (that's what the ...
- signifies) and then felt the L should be capitalized as the first word in the next sentence.
- When the passage was originally written, the word "let" probably wasn't the first word in a sentence.
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Since you posted this several days ago, you may not come back to check. But I'll answer your question anyway, since I looovvvve punctuation.
The original writer did not capitalize the L, but whoever was quoting him left out a portion (that's what the ... signifies) and then felt the L should be capitalized as the first word in the next sentence. When the passage was originally writt
The original writer did not capitalize the L, but whoever was quoting him left out a portion (that's what the ... signifies) and then felt the L should be capitalized as the first word in the next sentence. When the passage was originally writt
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