Problem
Watch the short YouTube video "direct quote format", and take notes.
Questions:
A. Why would you name the speaker of a direct quote in the sentence even when you use MLA citing in parentheses elsewhere in your essay?
B. When would you put a questions mark after the end quotation marks?
C. When wouldn't you capitalize the first word of a direct quote?
Exercise:
A. My dad called me his booger bear until I was in college.
B. George said, you're standing on my hamster.
C. Who said the buck stops here?
D. Don't pick your nose his mom told him.
E. He asked is it safe to let dogs eat donuts?