Formal and Informal Sentence Quotation Honors English 10

Review Key Word and Phrase When we did the KWPQ, we were talking about words and phrases? What’s a phrase? Where does the citation belong? What belongs in the citation? Where does the end punctuation (period/exclamation point/question mark) belong?

The Formal Sentence Introduction

The Steps (Formal) Choose a complete sentence to quote from your text, including the citation. “‘It was a witch,’ said Kay” (White 55). The words (your words) introducing a sentence quotation must be a complete sentence. They should say something that you want your reader to see or understand about the quotation. Kay’s statement in the closing sentence of chapter six supports the concept of the gore-crow as a symbol of Morgause Formal Sentence Quotations introductions are followed by a colon (:) Kay’s statement in the closing sentence of chapter six supports the concept of the gore-crow as a symbol of Morgause: “‘It was a witch,’ said Kay” (White 55).

Formal Sentence Quotation Why? What does a colon do? The colon indicates that what follows it is an explanation or elaboration of what precedes it. (A colon often won’t follow a ____ or ____) Preposition or a Conjunction (or interjection)

Formal Kay’s statement in the closing sentence of Chapter 6 supports the concept of the gore-crow as a symbol of Morgause: “‘It was a witch,’ said Kay” (White 55). NOTE: Single quotation marks are ONLY used for dialogue/quotation within another quotation.

The Informal Sentence Introduction

Breaking down the Informal The informal starts with a dependent clause introduction stating either the speaker or the author as narrator. It’s followed by a comma. When White writes, When Arthur says, We quote a full sentence of text, followed by another comma inside the quotation marks. The intro and quotation serve as one large dependent clause. When White writes, “The weather-cock was a carrion crow, with an arrow in its beak to point to the wind,” All of that is followed by a sentence of your writing that analyzes the quotation, followed by the citation. When White writes, “The weather-cock was a carrion crow, with an arrow in its beak to point to the wind” (214), he reveals a connection between the crow that took Arthur’s arrow in Book I and the Orkney boys.

Without all that text on the slide… Part 1: (dependent clause, followed by comma) When White writes,  When you’re quoting narration When Arthur says,  When you’re quoting dialogue States that the quotation is either narration or dialogue Add part 2: (full sentence quotation, followed by comma) When White writes, “The weather-cock was a carrion crow, with an arrow in its beak to point to the wind, Add part 3: (FULL sentence of your writing) When White writes, “The weather-cock was a carrion crow, with an arrow in its beak to point to the wind” (214), he reveals a connection between the crow that took Arthur’s arrow in Book I and the Orkney boys.

Informal Example When White writes, “The weather-cock was a carrion crow, with an arrow in its beak to point to the wind” (214), he reveals a connection between the crow that took Arthur’s arrow in Book I and the Orkney boys. Special Note: except in extremely rare circumstances, commas always go inside quotation marks.

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Ellipsis The ellipsis may be used in sentence quotations to omit quotation content. Why do we use them? Everything you quote should be discussed, so if we’re not going to discuss it, don’t quote it. What is an ellipsis…? Omits unnecessary content from your source material.

Ellipsis example When Janson yells, “Bring me your fourth and fifth children, . . . and I will educate them with my sword,” the king reveals his lust for killing (Brown 32). PUT A SPACE BETWEEN EACH PERIOD. … . . . Original quotation: “Bring me your fourth and fifth children, the ones that were not here last night when we wanted supper but were away in Waterloo, and I will educate them with my sword.”

Brackets Brackets look like this [X] and are used for three distinctly different purposes: …to add a word for enhancing sentence structure’s fluency “He felt sorry for [his] mother, the sad and useless wreck that she was.” …to add a SHORT fact to clarify the meaning. “This nigromancer [Merlyn], would you believe it, by means of his infernal arts, succeeded in putting the treacherous Uther Pendragon inside our Granny's Castle.“ …to change grammar (tense, word endings, etc.) for blending purposes (Think KWPQ) He never understands what “[is] expected of him.” Used to be “was expected of him.”

Guidelines for Use of Brackets When adding a word or a fact, nothing is removed from the author’s sentence. When changing the grammar, the author’s words are removed and replaced by your words.

Practice! Introductions Practice