From: notsaying@127.0.0.1   
      
   On Tue, 24 Nov 2020 11:04:16 GMT, Roger House <61rroger@gmail.com>   
   wrote:   
      
   > My smartphone has a news feature.  I was briefly looking at a news   
   > story from Breitbart news about some stuff that Fox news host Laura   
   > Ingraham said on her show.  At one point, it says/shows, (for lack of   
   > a better way of saying it), and this next little bit is a direct quote   
   > from the news piece:  "[U]nless the legal situation changes in a   
   > dramatic and unlikely manner, Joe Biden will be inaugurated on January   
   > 20."  There more stuff before and after the part that I quoted, but my   
   > question is only about something in the quoted part.  Here's my   
   > question.  Why is the "U" in the word unless in brackets and what is   
   > the point of putting it in the brackets?  The "U" is in brackets in   
   > the printed news piece, I didn't do it only by myself.  Thanks   
   > everyone in advance!   
   >   
   It's a quote, so it gives the exact letters used. The original material   
   had some other text before hand and continued with  "unless...". To make   
   it grammatical the sentence you show required a capital letter at the   
   start. The brackets indicate that that part is not being quoted; i.e. the   
   quotor, in this case, changed the 'u' to 'U'.   
      
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