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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

A quote beginning with "..."

I am quoting something that Harper Lee said in an essay. I found the quote on the assignment outline the teacher gave us, and it says, "...the integrity of a film adaptation is measured by the degree to which the novelist's intent is preserved..." which makes me think that this is being quoted from a longer passage.

This is the first sentence in my essay, should I capitalize "the"? or not?
  

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", you shouldn't put it at the begining of the the sentence; you should rather bury it inside the sentence which starts with a capital letter. " .....

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  • ", you shouldn't put it at the begining of the the sentence; you should rather bury it inside the sentence which starts with a capital letter.
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No, if it is an original quote, starting with "...the integrity...", you shouldn't put it at the begining of the the sentence; you should rather bury it inside the sentence which starts with a capital letter. For example:

To begin with, I would like to quote this: "...the integrity of a film adaptation is measured by the degree to which the novelist's intent is preserved..." .....
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I disagree -- "To begin with, I would like to quote this" is wordy and cumbersome and unnecesssary. I believe that the accepted convention if you have to change the capitalization of a quote to fit into the new context is to put the changed letter in parentheses, like this:
"(T)he integrity . .
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