Hi, I'm writing an English paper and I want to include an abridged quote, but I'm not sure I did it right. The original text is: Right at the beginning of the last chapter, O'Brien states, "But this too is true: stories can save us. I'm forty-three years old, and a writer now, and even still, right here...

Hi, I was looking at the online magazine article titled "Crackup of Anglican Communion at Hand, Evangelical Bishops Say" by Timothy C. Morgan and have these questions on selected paragraphes there. 1. On the second sentence of this paragraph, what could be the full version of what Archbishop...

Hi, How much is Mr. Krashen's word and how much is possible extra stuff added by the writer if you can tell from this one setence referenced? When you reference like this, how much should be Mr. Krashen's word? If the overall idea is his, but not word for word, can we reference like this? In...

Hi. When you say that someone said something simple like "He said XXX is important in a person's life" or "He indicated XXX is important is a person's life", and what is said is not in quotes, does that mean that what he said is a paraphrase of some sort. Let us assume the...

If there are no quotation marks, there is no suggestion that the reported statement is verbatim; if there are quotation marks, the presumption is that it is an accurate quote.

I've tried searching to see if anyone else has brought this up, but it doesn't seem likely. Anyway, my predicament is, as the title states, quoting a quote. Not exactly, anyway. Argh. On with the question. So, in English class for an essay, I'm quoting the author of a poem, who is in turn quoting his...

Dear Grammar Geek, I realize that you have already answered this question for someon else, but I am unable to access your answer. My English teacher told me that when I am quoting a quote that I need to use a triple quote. Example: "'Have you ever been to the store, Kohls?' asked Alec."...

Thank you. I was looking at your provided source, Anglia Ruskin University, University Library, Guide to the Harvard Style of Referencing, July 2008, and saw this: 2.2 Author’s name not cited directly in the text If you make reference to a work or piece of research without mentioning the author in the...

I couldn't find any info on this on the Internet, so I ask it here. I'm doing an essay and I want to add a quote in the text. However, I do not desire to quote the whole sentence, that is, I wish to quote only the things before a comma and not the things after the comma. I just can't remember how to...

Hi, I was looking at YAHOO! NEWS and saw what seem to be instances of quoting partially. Can you tell me how to do that? What would be the full quotes? All that, combined with a strategic influx of U.S. troops last year, has "opened the door to a major victory in the broader war on terror,"...