21st Century Grammar Handbook


Blew. See blow.Block quotations



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Blew. See blow.
Block quotations. Inmost nonacademic writing quotations can beset o simply by enclosing the quoted words in quotation marks and proper punctuation. However, at times your audience will not be easily able to grasp where along quotation starts or ends, or whether what they are reading is in fact still part of along quotation that started sometime ago but mayor may not have ended.
A simple strategy in writing to ensure that longer passages are clearly marked is to indent them, making a block quotation Such blocks can be introduced by simple phrases like Smith said followed by a comma or colon, some space to set o the block, and then the indented passage. Or some small part of the quotation can appear in unindented text along with transitional words that introduce the block:
“The speech was brilliant. Ask not Kennedy said,

what your country can do for you. Block quotes are not surrounded by quotation marks. If the block includes quotations of words from someone other than the original speaker, those passages are set o by quotes:
Professor Brown liked the speech. The academic repeated one of the most memorable statements in it,
“Kennedy said, Ask not what your country can do for you and then he moved onto other topics. I
liked that The professor then talked about the meaning of political speeches.
If your audience will be interested in the source of your block quotation, the simplest way to present it is in parentheses directly after the passage but what you can do for your country (Kennedy, Collected Speeches, p. There are other more elaborate procedures and rules in various systems for indicating the source of a quotation and showing it in a document. Consult a style
manual or writing guide recommended by your school, business, or agency if you need to adopt a speci c system of citing or presenting sources for block or other quotations.
Block quotation is a form of emphasis that can be applied to your own words in a written document. Indented passages standout even if they are not quotations from others.

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