When you want to refer to a quote but you don't want to write the whole quote, what do you put before the part until where you cut the quote ( besides the quotation marks). Also, do you capitalize the first word or not even though it's not the first word in the acutal quote?
2006-11-30 17:16:56 · 5 answers · asked by Kitana 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
I show that the first word of the quote is not the first word in the original sentence by inserting dots: "....that is the question". Obviously, if one is starting with the first word of a sentence, then one uses a capital, otherwise not.
2006-12-01 02:14:39 · answer #1 · answered by Doethineb 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The whole quote should be quoted and suitably referenced
2006-12-01 01:20:15 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
"When you want to refer to a quote..." or "... you want to refer to a quote..."
2006-12-01 01:48:00 · answer #3 · answered by madchriscross 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
... (ellipsis) and not caps if it's not the first word.
"... and seven years ago, our blah blah blah"
2006-12-01 01:18:41 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You would do this.
"It was said...people lack morals."
or
"...people lack morals."
2006-12-01 01:21:17 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋