Which quotation correctly uses ellipsis to shorten anthony’s words?

(a). . they do not barter away their natural rights; they simply pledge themselves to protect each other in the enjoyment of them, through prescribed judicial and legislative tribunals.
(b)and when . . people enter into a free government, they do not barter away their natural rights; they simply pledge themselves to protect each other in the enjoyment of them, through prescribed judicial and legislative tribunals.
(c)and when 100 or 1,000,000 people enter into a free government, they do not barter away their natural rights . . through prescribed judicial and legislative tribunals.
(d)and when 100 or 1,000,000 people enter into a free government, they do not barter away . . they simply pledge themselves to protect each other in the enjoyment of them, through prescribed judicial and legislative tribunals.

The quotation that uses ellipsis correctly to shorten Anthony's words is B, "and when ... people enter into a free government, they do not barter away their natural rights; they simply pledge themselves to protect each other in the enjoyment of them, through prescribed judicial and legislative tribunals.

The ellipsis is a device that is used to omit some parts of a sentence and is usually written between the sentences as a series of three dots. The information presented by the part removed can be usually inferred from the context.

The Quotation which correctly uses ellipses to shorten Anthony’s words is:

(B) And when . . . people enter into a free government, they do not barter away their natural rights; they simply pledge themselves to protect each other in the enjoyment of them, through prescribed judicial and legislative tribunals.

Further Explanation:

The above excerpt is from “on women’s right to vote,” which is a speech written by Susan b. Anthony in 1873.

The method of Ellipses involves the omission of a term or group of words. There are two somewhat separate descriptions of ellipsis which are relevant to literature. The primary definition of ellipsis includes the usually used three dots series, which can be placed at the start, in the mid-sentence, or after the completion of the sentence or phrase. The three dots can stand in for entire sections of text that are ignored that do not alter the overall meaning. The other definition of ellipsis includes the leaving out of a linguistically relevant word that is mutually understood and therefore unnecessary.

Ellipsis serves to shorten a quotation that is to omit the parts that are unnecessary or even redundant in a broader context. In this case, we can see that only the number of people is redundant - it is completely irrelevant whether there are 100 or 1,000,000 of them. All other information is crucial to the excerpt's meaning and cannot be omitted without losing much of that meaning. Hence, we can say that the quotation which correctly uses ellipses is “And when . . . people enter into a free government, they do not barter away their natural rights; they simply pledge themselves to protect each other in the enjoyment of them, through prescribed judicial and legislative tribunals.”

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Answer Details:

Grade: Senior School

Subject: English

Chapter: Capitalization, Punctuation, and Spelling  

Keywords:

Ellipses, Anthony, three dots, on women’s right to vote, omission of word, shorten quotation.

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