Direct or Indirect Quotations

1. Which of these sentences is correct?

• Kelly said "I am feeling sick today."

• Kelly said, "I am feeling sick today".

• Kelly said, "I am feeling sick today."

• Kelly said, "I am feeling sick today?

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CCSS.L.3.2C

CCSS.L.4.2B

CCSS.L.5.2D

3. Which of these is correct?

• "Could you help me carry these bags?" He asked.

• "Could you help me carry these bags?" he asked.

• "Could you help me carry these bags" he asked?

• "Could you help me carry these bags," he asked?

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CCSS.L.3.2C

CCSS.L.4.2B

CCSS.L.6.3A

7. Which of the following sentences is correct?

• Chloe asked, "where is my timetable?"

• "We want candy!" The children shouted.

• "I told you not to go there." My father said.

• Mai said, "My family is going to the market today."

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CCSS.L.3.2C

CCSS.L.4.2B

CCSS.L.6.3A

6. What's missing from this sentence? He said, “be quiet, please, and listen to my words.” 

• Quotation marks
  
• A capital letter
• An exclamation mark
• A question mark

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CCSS.L.1.2A

CCSS.L.2.2A

CCSS.L.3.2A

CCSS.L.4.2A

CCSS.L.K.2A

8.What's wrong with this sentence? I said to him, “Why are you working so hard”?

• "Why" should be lowercased

• There should not be a comma before the spoken words begin.

• There should be a full-stop after "hard".

• The question mark should come before the quotation marks.

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CCSS.L.3.2C

CCSS.L.4.2B

CCSS.L.5.2D

"I can't drive a truck," Bill said.

Bill said that _____.

• he couldn't drive a truck

• couldn't he drive a truck

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CCSS.L.3.2C

CCSS.L.4.2B

CCSS.L.6.3A

Taking and passing off as one's own someone else's work or ideas is known as ______.

• paraphrasing
• citing
• plagiarising
• quoting

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Which of the following options are quoted correctly?

• The author said, "He was the best runner ever"
• The author said he was the best runner ever/"
• " He was the best runner ever"
• The author said," He was the best runner ever."

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

What does a quotation record?

• The exact words used by someone in writing or speech.
• The same information said by someone else using slightly different words.

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What does a paraphrase capture?

• The same information said by someone else using slightly different words.
• The exact words used by someone in writing or speech.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2