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"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?

A. “The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above. . . .”
B. “The brave men . . . who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to detract.”
C.“The brave men . . . who struggled here. . . .”
D. “The brave men . . . far above our poor power to add or detract.”

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the answer is B. ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::_

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The answer to the question above is the "A.“The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above....”" quotation which correctly uses an ellipsis. There are two functions of an ellipsis in a speech writing or a narrative writing. An ellipsis shows a quotation which has an omitted part to its full text in a narrative writing and an ellipsis also shows the hesitation in a speech writing. This quotation shows the first function.
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