Quotation marks with direct quotations
Direct quotations of a person’s words, whether spoken or written, must be in quotation marks.
Do not use quotation marks around indirect quotations. An indirect quotation reports someone’s ideas without using that person’s exact words. In academic writing, indirect quotation is called paraphrase or summary.
Sometimes you quote only a phrase within an indirect quotation.
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