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Re:Stop defacing quotes with brackets by giantDinosaur on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @04:29AM (#26075501)
Often molding the quote to the 'grammatical context' simply means you've added too much anyway. For example, saying 'he says he's going to <quote>' which requires modification of the quote, vs. dropping it entirely: 'he says <quote>'.
Re:Stop defacing quotes with brackets by eplanit on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @10:06AM (#26078282)
"molding the quote to the 'grammatical context'"

That's called "paraphrasing", and is distinct from quoting, because a quote is what was actually said.