Question

Which of the following quotes indicates omitted text?

A. "You could go crazy thinking of how public our lives really are-the omnipresent security cameras, the tracking data on our very smart phones, the porous state of our Internet selves, the trail of electronic crumbs we leave every day," says New Yorker journalist Susan Orlean.

B. "You could go crazy thinking of how public our lives really are-[the omnipresent security cameras, the tracking data on our very smart phones,] the porous state of our Internet selves, the trail of electronic crumbs we leave every day," says New Yorker journalist Susan Orlean.

C. "You could go crazy thinking of how public [sic] our lives really are-the omnipresent security cameras, the tracking data on our very smart phones, the porous state of our Internet selves, the trail of electronic crumbs we leave every day," says New Yorker journalist Susan Orlean.

D. "You could go crazy thinking of how unprivate our lives really are...the porous state of our Internet selves, the trail of electronic crumbs we leave every day," says New Yorker journalist Susan Orlean.

Answer 1

D). "You could go crazy thinking of how unprivate our lives really are . . .the porous state of our Internet selves, the trail of electronic crumbs we leave every day," says New Yorker journalist Susan Orlean.

Step-by-step explanation:

The last quotation signals the omission in the text which is reflected through the use of ellipsis. Ellipsis is described as the punctuation mark that involves a chain of three dots(. . .) that are primarily employed to indicate an omission in the direct quotation while being cited. Thus, it indicates that an element or part of the sentence has been left out from the complete quotation and used only the contextually relevant phrases from the quotation(and omitted the less significant details) that assists the readers to understand it more clearly and effectively. Thus, option D is the correct answer.