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Embedding Quotations in a Sentence. Each piece of quoted material in a paragraph must have a transition that gives the context and background for that quote. Embedding quotations using transition helps quoted material flow naturally and coherently into your paragraph. .
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Each piece of quoted material in a paragraph must have a transition that gives the context and background for that quote.
Embedding quotations using transition helps quoted material flow naturally and coherently into your paragraph.
Example (transition is in bold):As Hester walks through the forest, she tries to step into the light, however, “as she attempt[s] to do so, the sunshine vanishe[s].”
When written properly, the reader should not be able to hear where the quotation marks are when the sentence is read aloud.
A properly embedded quotation creates a seamless transition from the background information to the quoted material.
When done poorly, the transition is choppy, incomplete, and predictable.
Poor example: For example, when “As she attempted to do so, the sunshine vanished.”
The prior example does not make sense when read aloud. Every sentence in a paragraph must make sense, regardless of whether or not it contains quoted material.
You may need to change words within your quote so that the sentence is grammatically correct and is coherent.
Example: Hester wonders if the earth will respond to Chillingworth’s evil, “greet[ing] him with poisonous shrubs.”
Notice, anytime you change or add something in a quote, you must use a bracket to indicate your change. In this case, the original “greet” was changed to “greet[ing].”
To omit words in the middle of a long quote, use ellipses (…)
Example:In the forest, Pearl amuses herself by “gather[ing] seaweed…and imitat[ing]…the letter A.”
1) give background and context for all quoted material -- what is happening, who is speaking
2) only use the most important part of the quote (for a short paper, ideally less than 5 words)
3) read your sentence aloud--can you “hear” the quotation marks? You shouldn’t.
4) change word tense if necessary, and omit unnecessary words and phrases; use ellipses and brackets to indicate your changes
“We impute it, therefore, solely to the disease in his own eye and heart, that the minister, looking upward to the zenith, beheld there the appearance of an immense letter--the letter A...”
