Quotation

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Quotation

• Separate QUOTATION
• Integrated QUOTATION
• Using ellipsis

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Quotation

• Reference
• Types of quotation punctuation
  http//www.eng.fju.edu.tw/concom_databank/Marguer
  ite/SSW3.htm
• Verbs to use proper format and varying sentence
  structure. http//www.eng.fju.edu.tw/concom_datab
  ank/Marguerite/SSW2.htm

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Separated Quotation

• St. Paul declared, "It is better to marry than to
  burn."
•      In his first epistle to the Corinthians, St.
  Paul commented on lust "It is better to marry
  than to burn. (a separate unit of the sentence.)
• Robyns She says, I took all my notebooks, all
  my manuscripts and ate them page by page, so I
  could take my words with me. Its like she
  stresses on receive ideas and mental elements,
  and rejects materials like dresses and jeans.

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Separated vs. Integrated Quotation (2)

• Separated She says, I took all my notebooks,
  all my manuscripts and ate them page by page, so
  I could take my words with me, which means that
  she stresses preserving ideas and mental
  elements, while rejecting materials like dresses
  and jeans.
• Integrated While rejecting material things such
  as dresses and jeans, she guards her own words to
  such a degree that she eats her notebook page by
  page, so she could take her words with her.

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Ellipsis

• Improper Besides, in this is my greatest
  performance and all of the actresses who won my
  parts will say. The life for women is like to
  play a role for performance life is an image for
  others. Even when one of the women disappears,
  there are still many women eager to take her
  role.
• Meaning incomplete

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Ellipsis -revised

• Another source of constraint is that of playing
  roles, of which even her death is one. Over her
  death, the other actresses who will take over
  her role praise by saying how wonderful to let
  yourself go that mad, how wonderful . . . . as
  if it were a matter of performance on the stage.