Two Tips: 1) If you need to change the form of a word, put brackets [ ] around the syllables of the word you change. For example: suppose, in order to make a quotation fit your sentence, you need to make a verb past tense. = “Ends” “Ended” “End[ed]” = “Runs” “Ran” “[Ran]” = “Begin” “Beginning” “Begin[ning]” 2) If you want to include some words from a passage but skip others, use ellipses (. . .) to mark the places where you have skipped words. For example: I perhaps didn’t act in the Source’s original wording: “Although best way possible in fact, now that I recollect, I was pretty stupid – but I at least acted according to my best knowledge, on what I – thought I knew, at the time.” John Glidden claims that I Quotation using ellipsis: “although perhaps didn’t act in the best way possible . . . I at least acted according to my best knowledge . . . at the time.”
Two Tips: 1) If you need to change the form of a word, put brackets [ ] around the syllables of the word you change. For example: suppose, in order to make a quotation fit your sentence, you need to make a verb past tense. “Ends” “Ended” = “End[ed]” “Runs” “Ran” = “[Ran]” “Begin” “Beginning” = “Begin[ning]” 2) If you want to include some words from a passage but skip others, use ellipses (. . .) to mark the places where you have skipped words. For example: Source’s original wording: “Although I perhaps didn’t act in the best way possible – in fact, now that I recollect, I was pretty stupid – but I at least acted according to my best knowledge, on what I thought I knew, at the time.” Quotation using ellipsis: John Glidden claims that “although I perhaps didn’t act in the best way possible . . . I at least acted according to my best knowledge . . . at the time.”
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