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[Closed] Grammar/Punctuation Help

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Why is the word 'work' in brackets in the following sentence? This has been bugging me for ages.

"It's just that the people that really want to get [work] get it," he says.

Sorry wrong forum...doh!


 
Posted : 24/02/2010 5:33 pm
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Posted : 24/02/2010 5:34 pm
 JimB
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Whatever's in the square brackets is not verbatim from the quote.

The original quote might've been something like:

"It's just that the people that really want to get [b]it[/b] get it."

But as that doesn't make sense with no context, it's altered to:

"It's just that the people that really want to get [work] get it"


 
Posted : 24/02/2010 6:04 pm