Here is a news article quote :“[h]omemakers and athletes also tend to be off the road during rush hour” -- when most accidents occur.Ok, why the brackets around H in homemakers? I see this a lot and there are a lot of different variations of this, can someone explain?
In Rose Kennedy's 2013 biography, a writing technique is used whereby letters are bracketed inside words. Example:(R)ose Kennedy went to the (s)tore to buy food. What technique is this called in writing?
I was on YA for something else, but this topic was trending on the sidebar
Sorry, not sure about this
Brackets are often used to replace missing words or concepts. In this case, it's possible the article was actually quoting a misprint that wrote homemaker as omemaker. If an article quotes someone as saying When I saw him, he was very distraught, the editor may define the subject for the reader's understanding with brackets: When I saw [John Smith], he was very distraught
