When is it acceptable to use brackets in a quote?
A.
when you would like to insert your own comment within a quote
B.
when you need to clarify the tense or the subject within a quote
C.
when you want to omit irrelevant parts of the quote

B) When you need to clairfiy the tense or the subject within a quote.

Explanation: For example: Smith writes in his autobiography: “I seldom spoke in French class. When I did, I usually just said je ne sais pas [I don’t know].”

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world war i began in 1914, after the assassination of archduke franz ferdinand, and lasted until 1918. during the conflict, germany, austria-hungary, bulgaria and the ottoman empire (the central powers) fought against great britain, france, russia, italy, romania, japan and the united states (the allied powers). to new military technologies and the horrors of trench warfare, world war i saw unprecedented levels of carnage and destruction. by the time the war was over and the allied powers claimed victory, more than 16 million people—soldiers and civilians alike—were dead.

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