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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Essay & Composition Writing
Quoting Dialogue
Okay, so I am writing an essay on this book and I need to quote passages from it. One of the passages I want to quote happens to have dialogue where one of the speakers is quoting what the other person said. In the book, this is how it went:
"It goes deeper than that. Being here alone with nothing to do, I've been thinking about myself, too. Trying to understand why I hate myself so badly."
"No, Ender."
"Don't tell me 'No, Ender.' It took me... (etc.)
So, how exactly would I quote something that has a quote withing a quote?
"It goes deeper than that. Being here alone with nothing to do, I've been thinking about myself, too. Trying to understand why I hate myself so badly."
"No, Ender."
"Don't tell me 'No, Ender.' It took me... (etc.)
So, how exactly would I quote something that has a quote withing a quote?
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A sustained quote like that would not be surrounded by quotation marks, but would be indented from the left paragraph margin and separated from the body of the paragraph by blank lines.
- A sustained quote like that would not be surrounded by quotation marks, but would be indented from the left paragraph margin and separated from the body of the paragraph by blank lines.
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A sustained quote like that would not be surrounded by quotation marks, but would be indented from the left paragraph margin and separated from the body of the paragraph by blank lines.
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