Quotation

quatation  A quotation is the exact words of someone else When you like what someone said, put their quotation in your writing Continue reading Quotation marks draw attention to words and reference certain kinds of titles Write most direct speech in single quote marks

For quotations that are more than four lines of prose or three lines of verse, place quotations in a free-standing block of text and omit quotation marks Start A quotation, or quote, is a document that a supplier submits to a potential client with a proposed price for the supplier's goods or services

The obsolete sense of “quota”, from Medieval Latin quotatio, from Latin quotāre, is attested from the 15th century The sense “fragment of verbal expression”, Use a comma to introduce a quotation after a standard dialogue tag, a brief introductory phrase, or a dependent clause For example: He said, I may forget