Why do people sometimes put a bracket [ ] in the first letter of the first word in a citation? What is the meaning of that bracket and why do they put it like? e.g. Scholars have recognized that "[c]artography was an important tool of imperial expansion and technology of abstraction".
Because in the original text, that word was the first letter of its sentence and had to be capitalized, but when it is quoted they change the capitalization to fit its place in the new sentence. If I quote someone saying:
Cats are very good mouse catchers.
I would say that experts have said that "[c]ats are very good mouse catchers."
Apr 27 2006, 6:21 PM
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When a word is substituted by a "reteller" of a quote in order to clarify the quote.
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