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Answer:
The added quote is "[ing]"
Explanation:
When authors and writers want to quote something while writing a piece, the generally include the quote in inverted commas. So for example if you want to quote the following phrase: sample text; you would simply include it in inverted commas like so: "sample text". By doing this and also laying the context for the quote in your piece, the audiance will know that the statements within the inverted commas are the ones that have been quoted. This is also a reason why inverted commas are also referred to as quoatation marks. Of course, you should cite the quoted text as well to avoid plagiarism.
Now, sometimes, you cannot include a quote as it is since it may different from the form of tense you may be using (past, present, future) or the quote may be grammatically incorrect, or the quote may be a bit abstract for which additional information is required to make sense.
In our example, lets look at the author's own statement and the first line of the direct quote: Edith Wharton describes the village of Starkfield as "lay under two feet of snow, with drifts at the windy corners". As we can see, the tense of the word "lay" is not grammatically consisted with the tense in which the author is writing. The proper tense of the word should be "laying". To add something else to a direct quote you simply add them in a rectangular bracket. Hence, the author wrote "lay[ing]"
