NOUN
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a report of the exact words used in a discourse (e.g.,
he said `I am a fool'
he said `I am a fool'
How To Use direct quotation In A Sentence
- You might cite part of this text with a direct quotation followed by a footnote. A Short Guide to Writing About History
- A correspondent rightly faults me for not giving the direct quotation.
- Except at the end of the last movement, he avoids direct quotation.
- Viewers gain a wealth of information about Wright and hear some of his direct quotations.
- In addition, Wilson and Sperber also suggest that ironic, echoic utterances share many characteristics with indirect quotations.
- This is followed by a more detailed treatment that includes both synthesis and direct quotations.
- This strategy does not just incorporate the parody or direct quotation of prior texts, but uses everyday objects as the basis of its allegorical structure.
- Fromkin uses footnotes to identify direct quotations rather than to support historical argument.
- -- _Rewrite these same sentences, changing the direct quotations and questions to indirect, and the indirect to direct_. Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition
- He cites not a single work, nor is there any direct quotation.