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If you put quotation marks around the word friendly, you are suggesting that although someone or something has been called friendly, he/she/they/it may not really be that friendly.
Any changes in the original version of a quotation must be placed in square brackets to indicate that the words have been added, removed, or altered.
Text has to be in quotation marks. If it isn't, it is treated as being the name of something, like a name that has been defined for a range of cells.
A quotation is usually where someone wishes to say something that has already been said by someone else. This is denoted by the use of "s around the word or phrase. For example: "To be, or not to be" - originally written by William Shakespeare.
To add information to a quotation, enclose the added words in square brackets. To omit information from a quotation, use an ellipsis (...) to indicate that words have been removed. It's important to ensure that any added or omitted information does not change the original meaning of the quote.
has been changed
"Should have been" is the correct phrase to indicate something that ought to have happened in the past.
ellipse ... Actually, it's an ellipsis, not an ellipse
You left out the rest of the quotation, so I can't tell you exactly. They were comparing something that could have been a type of people (peeps) or a type of car.
You can not change something that has been change for years now .
Ellipses in the middle of a quotation show the reader that words have been left out.
Writers use ellipses in a quotation to indicate that a portion of the text has been omitted. This is often done to condense the quote or focus on the most relevant information. Ellipses can also create a pause or emphasize a point within the quoted text.