Read an original passage from Mark Twain (A), and then read a student's excerpt from an essay about it (B). Is the student's excerpt written correctly? Which following piece of feedback is correct?
A. Now when I had mastered the language of this water and had come to know every trifling feature that
bordered the great river as familiarly as I knew the letters of the alphabet, I had made a valuable acquisition.
But I had lost something too. I had lost something which could never be restored to me while I lived. All the
grace, the beauty, the poetry, had gone out of the majestic river!
B. Twain in his later years said that when [he] had mastered the language of this water... [he] had made a
valuable acquisition. But [he] had lost something too All the grace, the beauty, the poetry had gone out of
the majestic river!
Your use of ellipses and brackets is correct.
Your use of brackets is correct, but you use ellipses incorrectly.