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Depends on if it was in the past or present...
A pause can be used to give emphasis to a certain point. The pauses can also be used to single out a certain sentence and those sentences are what later get quoted in newspaper articles or people what people use to refer to the speech in question.
Be more specific jk idk i need to answer this to ask a question byeee
What passage? If you take a pic I can answer it:)