grammar post 8

Quoting has so many different rules its hard to keep them all straight but this site really helped it had all the quoting ways you can imagine. I struggle when i dont know if you are like supposed to put your own thoughts into quotations into a paper just little things like that so if you are like me this website will help.
Direct quotations are another person's exact words--either spoken or in print--incorporated into your own writing.
Use a set of quotation marks to enclose each direct quotation included in your writing.
Use a capital letter with the first word of a direct quotation of a whole sentence. Do not use a capital letter with the first word of a direct quotation of part of a sentence.
If the quotation is interrupted and then continues in your sentence, do not capitalize the second part of the quotation.
Mr. and Mrs. Allen, owners of a 300-acre farm, said, "We refuse to use that pesticide because it might pollute the nearby wells."
Mr. and Mrs. Allen stated that they "refuse to use that pesticide" because of possible water pollution.
"He likes to talk about football," she said, "especially when the Super Bowl is coming up."
Indirect quotations are not exact words but rather rephrasings or summaries of another person's words. Do not use quotation marks for indirect quotations.
According to their statement to the local papers, the Allens refuse to use pesticide because of potential water pollution.
Below are some further explanations and examples of how to integrate quoted prose into your own writing.
Quotation within a quotationUse single quotation marks for a quotation enclosed inside another quotation. For example:
The agricultural reporter for the newspaper explained, "When I talked to the Allens last week, they said, 'We refuse to use that pesticide.' "
Omitted words in a quotationIf you leave words out of a quotation, use an ellipsis mark to indicate the omitted words. If you need to insert something within a quotation, use a pair of brackets to enclose the addition. For example:
full quotation
The welfare agency representative said, "We are unable to help every family that we'd like to help because we don't have the funds to do so."
omitted material with ellipsis
The welfare agency representative said, "We are unable to help every family . . . because we don't have the funds to do so."
added material with brackets
The welfare agency representative explained that they are "unable to help every family that [they would] like to help."
Block quotationsA quotation that extends more than four typed lines on a page should be indented one inch from the left margin (the equivalent of two half-inch paragraph indentations). Maintain double spacing as in the main text, and do not use quotation marks for the block quotation.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_quote.html