Question ID:PT51 S3 Q19 Passage:Style manual:  Archaic spellings and styles of punctuation in direct quotations from older works are to be preserved if they occur infrequently and do not interfere with a reader's comprehension. However, if they occur frequently, the editor may modernize them, inserting a note with an explanation to this effect in the text, or if similar modernizing has been done in more than one quotation, inserting a general statement in the preface. On the other hand, obvious typographical errors in quotations from modern works may be corrected without explanation. Stem:Which one of the following follows logically from the statements above? Correct Answer Choice:DChoice A:If an editor corrects the spelling of a quoted word and the word occurs only once in the text, then an explanation should appear in a note or in the text. Choice B:An editor may modernize an archaic spelling of a word found in a modern work without providing an explanation. Choice C:An editor should modernize an archaic spelling of a word that is quoted from an older work if the spelling interferes with reader comprehension. Choice D:An editor may modernize punctuation directly quoted from an older work if that punctuation occurs frequently and interferes with reader comprehension. Choice E:If an editor modernizes only one of several similar instances of quoted archaic punctuation, an explanation should appear in the preface of the work.