Lesson 1.9 – Direct Quotations: Recap
Below is a recap of what we learned in Lesson 1.
- Use quotation marks to enclose a direct quotation. A direct quotation is used to quote the author’s language word for word.
- When only a word or phrase is quoted from another source, be sure to place the quotation marks around only the words extracted from the original source and not around any rearrangement of those words.
- Be sure not to include such words as “a” and “the” at the beginning or “etc.” at the end of the quotation unless these words were actually part of the original quote.
- When quoting a series of words or phrases in the exact sequence in which they originally appeared, use quotation marks before and after the complete series.
- When the quoted material is introduced by “that” or is in some other manner integrated into the sentence, do not capitalize the first word of the quotation.
- When a quotation is woven into the flow of the sentence, do not use a comma before or after the quotation.
- When quoting material and changing the tense from how it was spoken in the original statement, the quote is no longer a direct quote and should not be quoted.
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