There may be times when you need to add or alter words in a quotation, so that it will make sense in the context of your essay. For example, here we rave added a character’s name to help the quotation make sense: Malcolm muggeridge said that ‘[Macmillan] exuded a flavor of mothballs’. Square brackets are used around the interpolated matter. You might also need to alter a quotation if you are using a quotation with a lower-case letter at the [outset, but want to use it to start a sentence:
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