Quoting in exams..

Hi. Just a quick Q about quotes in exams. If I want to say this :

'The quality of mercy is not strain'd.
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath.'

Do I do this:

'The quality of mercy is not strain'd. / It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven / Upon the place beneath.'

Or this:

The quality of mercy is not strain'd. .... It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven ... Upon the place beneath.'

Reply 1

hongkongstudent

The examiner won't mark you down either way I think, so long they can understand what you are writing. After all they're marking you on your own writing, not the original text they give you. I use to quote poems lines (if I was quoting multiple lines) by using commas.

Reply 2

MissSurfer

17

Personally I would either do the / 's (or just start it on a new line if you're not embedding it in a sentence) - but I'm only GCSE level so probably not the best person to ask - hope it helps anyway,

MissSurfer

Reply 3

Madelyn

13

I would separate lines with slashes (/), as otherwise it looks like you've omitted parts of the quotation.

/ for defs.

I do two, like this //, between lines. But if you really want to do three lines of quotation I'd be tempted not to embed the quotes at all. Do it like this:

In this passage xxx is well demonstrated:
'The quality of mercy is not strain'd.
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath.'
Here, x shows...

If you really don't want to, though, then definitely two strokes - on ecan look like punctuation, but there's no mistaking two.

Reply 6

mxox

OP

2

skevvybritt

I do two, like this //, between lines. But if you really want to do three lines of quotation I'd be tempted not to embed the quotes at all. Do it like this:

In this passage xxx is well demonstrated:
'The quality of mercy is not strain'd.
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath.'
Here, x shows...

If you really don't want to, though, then definitely two strokes - on ecan look like punctuation, but there's no mistaking two.

Okay.. I'll take your word for it!

Quoting in exams..

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