General Principles:
- Quote only what you need or is really striking.
- Construct your own sentence so the quotation fits smoothly into it.
- Usually announce a quotation in the words preceding it.
- Choose your announcing verb carefully.
Technical Rules:
- Don't automatically put a comma before a quotation.
- Put a period or comma at the end of a quotation inside the close-quotation mark.
- Use a slash (/) to indicate a line-break in a quoted passage of poetry
- Punctuate the end of a quotation embedded in your sentence with whatever punctuation your sentence requires, otherwise, quote verbatim (word-for-word) and omit words by using ellipses [...]
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