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If a quotation makes up all of a person's speech does it still need to be in its own quote marks?
I have the following speech in a book I'm designing:
Seeing him hesitate, she said lightly, ‘“‘There’s both meat and music here,’ quoth the dog as he ate the piper’s bag”!’
Essentially someone is ...
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When quoting issuing commands to multiple individuals, should each new person be a new paragraph?
If a person is giving instructions to separate individuals and it's all spoken in quotes, should the spoken words for each new person start a new paragraph or if the commands are connected to a single ...
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What type of rhetorical figure is this?
What type of figure of speech/rhetorical figure are the following:
“You are dearer to me than myself, as you yourself can see.” (Bob Dylan)
“Them I will forget, but you I’ll remember always.” (Bob ...
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How do you quote a quote? [duplicate]
There's this sentence from Marie Kondo’s book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing that I want to use as a title of my project, and I'm not sure if I ...
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How do you properly quote a quote as a title? [duplicate]
There's this sentence from Marie Kondo’s book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing that I want to use as a header/title of my project, and I need ...
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Is it better to go verb-then-name or name-then-verb when writing sentences with quotes?
Which of these is correct? The first? The second? Both?
verb then name:
"She's late again," said Jason.
name then verb:
"She's late again," Jason said.
I have almost always used the first ...
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How can I Include a verbatim passage in my fiction without plagiarizing it?
In my novel, the MC goes to a resort and at the resort, they offer two types of Buddhist meditations. Those meditations are from another book and I cannot fiddle with the meditation steps without ...
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How should I quote American English speakers in a British English essay?
I am working on a formal essay where I have to quote a few American English speakers, but my essay is written in British English. Should I change terms like color to colour?
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Using a pronoun outside of quotations to refer to a person mentioned in quotations who hasn't been introduced yet
Would the line:
"Peter!" cried his father.
make grammatical sense? It seems to work intuitively, but I'm just not sure. It's also a tough question to google, as it turns out, so any reply would be ...
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Why end sentences with commas instead of periods when the sentence is in a quote?
I've seen styles where writers end sentences with commas if it is inside double quotes and styles where writers end sentences with periods.
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"She's late again." mumbled Jason.
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Having a character quote an entire stanza of a poem
I am working on a long form fiction item. In this one of the characters will quote the first stanza from a poem. Normally with speech, one opens quotes, adds the text, and closes quotes. However I do ...
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How to mark own translation?
In a thesis written using the Author's "We", how do you mark a translation of a quotation as your own?
"My translation" violates the pluralis auctoris.
"Our translation" also doesn't fit with the ...
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How to indicate that a single letter was removed from a quotation
Suppose a source text says:
1 Timothy 2:4 says that God desires all people to be saved.
Now suppose I want to quote it like this:
It is possible for God to "desire all people to be saved."
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Changing Capitalization in a Quote - MLA
I'm writing an essay (MLA style) for class and I am quoting a whole sentence within my sentence.
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They published a “manifesto” proclaiming that “[a]ll are welcome to walk through our ...
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How to quote from a foreign journal that has not been translated?
I need to quote from a journal written in Arabic. What should I do? Write it first in Arabic then followed by translation and indicating that it is my own translation (translated by author)? Can I ...
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Punctuation-Quote or Quote-Punctuation?
I'm writing a document using the Chicago Manual of Style. I don't have access to the full guide, only to what's provided on-line.
Now I wondering as to whether, in the main text itself, I should use ...
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Is it okay to quote a saying, even if i don't know who said it?
If it is okay to quote then how should i quote it. For example,
"Many wealthy people are little more
than janitors of their possessions."
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
Now if i don't know ...
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How to emphasize a quote is written, not spoken?
In a similar question on EL&U, I asked about suggestions for indicating that a quote is written instead of spoken.
Robusto's answer suggested several possible approaches:
For longer quotes of ...
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