"The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract." —"The Gettysburg Address," Abraham Lincoln Which quotation correctly uses an ellipses? "The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above. . . ." "The brave men . . . Who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to detract." "The brave men . . . Who struggled here. . . ." "The brave men . . . Far above our poor power to add or detract." Identify whether each quotation is formatted correctly, and, if not, how it needs to be improved. Quotation 1: Quotation 2: Quotation 3:

B). Quotation 2

Explanation:

The second quotation i.e.“The brave men . . . who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to detract" correctly employs an ellipses as it denotes the omittance of words in the quotation. It helps in eliminating the irrelevant content from the passage. The other options inappropriately employs the ellipses at the end of sentence or between the words without omisssion.

The second quotation is correctly formatted as it correctly employs the quotation marks("..."), commas, employs ellipses aptly, full stop inside the quotation marks to denote the quoted words. The other options are although formatted correctly yet wrongly employs the ellipses and hence, grammatically incorrect.

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