How to write quotes. Proper quotation. How to format quotes in text. What letter do you start a quote with?

Direct speech, i.e., the speech of another person, included in the author's text and reproduced verbatim, is drawn up in two ways.

If direct speech is in a string (in a selection), then it is enclosed in quotation marks: « I'm sorry I didn't know your father , she said after a while. -He must have been very kind, very serious, very fond of you. ". Luzhin said nothing(Nab.).

If direct speech begins with a paragraph, then a dash is placed in front of it (there are no quotes):

Fedya and Kuzma were silent. Kuzma winked imperceptibly at Fedya, and they went out into the street.

Here's what I came for: have the Lyubavins arrived from the mowing?

We've arrived.

Take Yasha and wait for me here. I'll pop home for a minute(Shuksh.).

Both ways of designing direct speech can be combined if the speech of one person also includes the direct speech of another person:

Did I say so?

Oh, terrible fool!(Bond.).

Have you had a dream, or what?

Vidal. As if my father and I went to trade a horse, we both liked one horse, my father blinks at me: “Jump and jump » (Shuksh.).

§134

If direct speech is worth before introducing it author's words, then a comma and a dash are placed after direct speech, and the author's words begin with a lowercase letter: “We understand everything perfectly, Nikolai Vasilyevich,” Solodovnikov quipped to himself, sitting down on a white stool.(Shuksh.). If after direct speech there is a question, exclamation point or ellipsis, then these signs are preserved, and a comma is not put; the words of the author, as in the first case, begin with a lowercase letter: “Yes, it was necessary to say goodbye! ..” - he realized when the covered car was already climbing up to the vozvoz(Shuksh.); “My blue-eyed guardian angel, why are you looking at me with such sad anxiety?” - Krymov wanted to say ironically(Bond.).

If direct speech is worth after the words of the author, then these words end with a colon; punctuation marks after direct speech are preserved: I I tell him: "Don't cry, Egor, don't"(rasp.); Philip mechanically drove the steering oar and kept thinking: "Maryushka, Marya ..."(Shuksh.); I wanted to get to the “office” as soon as possible, to pick up the phone, to hear the familiar voice of Dolin: “Is that you? You have to, don't you?"(Sol.).

§135

1. If a at the break point turns out exclamation or question mark, then it is preserved, followed by a dash before the words of the author (with lowercase letters), these words are followed by a dot and a dash; the second part of direct speech begins with a capital letter: “Am I giving happiness to many people now, as I did before? thought Kiprensky. “Are only fools trying to arrange the well-being of their lives?”(Paust.); “Yes, be quiet! - ordered the attendant. “Can you shut up?!”(Shuksh.).

2. If a at the break point direct speech should be ellipsis, then it is preserved and a dash is placed after it; after the words of the author, a comma and a dash are placed if the second part of direct speech is not an independent sentence, or a period and a dash if the second part of direct speech is an independent sentence; the second part of direct speech, respectively, begins with a lowercase or uppercase letter: “Probably, she had a seizure with the hostess ... - thought Mashenka, - or she quarreled with her husband ...”(Ch.); “Wait a minute…” Lyonka shouted, releasing his flaxen hair from his grandfather's clumsy, trembling fingers, brightening up a little. - As you say? Dust?"(M. G.).

3. If a at the break point direct speech should not have any punctuation mark or should be mid-sentence marks: comma, semicolon, colon, dash, then the words of the author are separated by a comma and a dash; the second part of direct speech begins with a lowercase letter: “You can’t understand,” I whisper, having called Ruslan into the next room and shutting the door, “because we are different beings.”(Trif.); “So, withered a little, from one side,” Asya giggled in a youthful way, wrinkles spread across her face, “like a stale apple”(Trif.); “Suddenly you sow,” Semyon thought, “and ordinary barley will grow. Most likely it will happen.”(Sol.); “Yes, something is pecking badly,” the Fog spoke, “it hurts hot.”(T.); “But how will you play,” Darwin said in response to his thoughts, “this is, of course, a question”(Nab.).

4. If a at the break point direct speech should be dot, then a comma and a dash are placed before the words of the author, after these words - a period and a dash; the second part of direct speech begins with a capital letter: “They were dismissed before the verdict,” Dvornik said. “They will announce tomorrow at nine in the evening.”(Trif.).

5. If the author's words break apart within the meaning of into two parts, which refer to different parts of direct speech, then, subject to other conditions, a colon and a dash are placed after the words of the author: "Ehma ... - hopelesslysighed Gavrila in response to a stern orderand bitterlyadded : - My fate is lost!(M. G.); "Don't touch your uniform! -ordered Lermontovand added , not at all angry, but even with some curiosity: “Are you going to listen to me or not?”(Paust.); “Have you ever smelled copper on your hands? -asked unexpectedly, the engraver, and without waiting for an answer, grimaced andcontinued : - Poisonous, disgusting "(Paust.).

§136

If direct speech is inside the words of the author, then it is enclosed in quotation marks and preceded by a colon; direct speech begins with a capital letter. After direct speech, punctuation marks are arranged as follows:

a) a comma is placed if it was necessary at the break point of the author's introductory words: Saying "see you soon" she quickly left the room ;

b) a dash is placed in the absence of a punctuation mark at the break point of the author's introductory words: Overcoming embarrassment, he muttered a student joke: "My grandmother got measles" - and wanted to give the conversation that started a casual lightness.(Bond.);

in) a dash is placed if direct speech ends with an ellipsis, question mark or exclamation mark: The children expected him to praise them, but grandfather, shaking his head, said: “This stone has been lying here for many years, this is where it belongs ...” - and told about the feat of three Soviet intelligence officers(Dry); Pyotr Mikhailovich wanted to say: “Please don’t get involved in your own business!” - but said nothing(Ch.); She is[dog] stops. I repeat: "What is said?" - and keep it on the counter for a long time(Shv.);

G) if direct speech is directly included in the author's sentence as its member, then it is enclosed in quotation marks, while punctuation marks are placed according to the terms of the author's sentence: Having said to Grichmar the phrase “There is no easy life, there is only an easy death”, Krymov caught Stishov’s restless, warning look(Bond.).

§137

If direct speech belongs to different persons, then each replica is separated by quotation marks separately:

a) replicas are separated from each other by a dash: "Samovar - ready?" - "Not yet..." - "Why? Someone has come." - "Avdotya Gavrilovna"(M. G.);

b) if one of the replicas is accompanied by introductory author's words, then the next one is not separated by a dash: "Are you a widow?" he asked quietly. "Third year". - How long have you been married? “A year and five months…”(M. G.);

in) a dot and a dash are placed between replicas belonging to different persons and provided with different author's words: Passing by, he said: "Don't forget to buy tickets." "I'll try," I replied.; if the first replica contains exclamation or question marks, the period is omitted: Passing by, he shouted: "Cheer up!" "I'll try," I replied. ;

G) a comma and a dash are placed between replicas belonging to different persons, but united by a common author's sentence: When the clerk said: "It would be nice, sir, to do this and that," - "Yes, not bad," he usually answered(G.); if the first sentence contains exclamation or question marks, the comma is omitted: When I asked, “Why are you wearing a carpet on your back?” "I'm cold," he replied.; the same with a different arrangement of parts of the author's proposal: When I asked, “Why are you wearing a carpet on your back?” - he replied: "I'm cold"(Current.).

§138

At paragraph allocation dialogue lines placed before the replica dash; after the words of the author preceding the dialogue, a colon or period is put. If the author's text contains words that introduce direct speech, then a colon is placed after them; if there are no such words, then a full stop is put:

Carmen withdrew her hand; the unfinished measure froze with an interrogative ringing.

I'll play it, she said.

When?

When will you be with me(Greene).

The telegraph operator, a strict dry woman, after reading the telegram,suggested :

Compose differently. You are an adult, not in kindergarten.

Why? asked the Weird. “I always write to her like that in my letters. This is my wife! .. You probably thought ...

You can write anything in letters, but a telegram is a type of communication. This is plain text.

Freak rewrote(Shuksh.).

The same with a single replica:

Shatsky paced the room.

Suffocation, suffocation! he muttered. – Local evenings cause asthma(Paust.).

His eyes are downcast. Then he raised them to Nadya, his ordinary blue eyes, smiled and said softly:

Excuse me. This is my fault. This is childish on my part(Sol.).

§139

Paragraph and non-paragraph (using quotation marks) selection of direct speech is used differentially. If the text alternates between external speech (addressed to the interlocutor) and internal speech (I thought to myself), then external speech is formed using indentation, and internal speech using quotation marks:

M-yes. Well, you are right. It is impossible to change the case for idleness. Go ahead and draw your triangles.

Nadia looked imploringly into Ivan's eyes. "Well, what's so terrible -wanted to tell her . - There will be a new evening tomorrow, you can go to the White Mountains. And the day after tomorrow. But it’s not my fault if I promised two weeks ago.”(Sol.).

And after my words, he smiled from ear to ear (he has such a mouth, just from ear to ear) and joyfully agreed:

Okay, then let's go.

"Here I'll show you" let's go ", -I thought to myself (Sol.).

Only quotes mark the inner ( thought to myself) speech in the author's text, outside the dialogue:

Kuzma looked where they pointed. There, on the slope of another slope, mowers walked in a chain. Behind them, mowed grass remained in even lines - beautiful. “Some of them is Marya,”Kuzma thought calmly (Shuksh.); Kuzma looked at her with pleasure. "What am I, a fool, looking for more?" -he thought (Shuksh.).

Quote punctuation marks

§140

Quotes are concluded in quotation marks and are punctuated in the same way as direct speech (see § 133-136):

a) Marcus Aurelius said: “Pain is a living idea of ​​pain: make an effort of will to change this idea, throw it away, stop complaining, and the pain will disappear”(Ch.); Remember the words of L. N. Tolstoy more often: “A person has only duties!”; M. Aliger has the lines: “A person needs very little for happiness to grow to its full height”; L. N. Tolstoy has an interesting comparison: “Just as an eye has an eyelid, so a fool has self-confidence to protect himself from the possibility of defeating his vanity. And both, the more they take care of themselves, the less they see - they close their eyes. ;

b) “Whoever shoots the past with a pistol, the future will shoot with a cannon,” wrote R. Gamzatov; “He is not a writer who has not added at least a little vigilance to a person’s vision,” said K. Paustovsky ;

in) “In order to create something,” wrote Goethe, “one must be something”; “If on Nikola (December 19),” the book said, “the day is cold and clear - by the grain year”(Sol.);

G) Pascal's saying: "He who knows how to suggest that he is not very cunning, he is far from being simple" - sounds aphoristic; Picasso's words: "Art is an emanation of pain and sadness" - have a deep meaning .

§141

If the quotation is incomplete, then the gap is indicated ellipsis(at the beginning of a quote, in the middle or at the end):

a) “... If good has a reason, it is no longer good; if good has a consequence, then it is no longer good. Good is beyond effects and causes,” wrote Leo Tolstoy in his diaries; “... The poem develops into my memories, which at least once a year (often in December) require me to do something with them,” A. Akhmatova notes in “Prose about the Poem” ;

b) “The biography of the heroine ... is written in one of my notebooks,” writes A. Akhmatova in one of her letters from Komarov ;

in) “Goethe somewhere says that nothing significant can be created in a foreign language - I always thought that this was not true ...” - wrote M. Tsvetaeva in 1926 to Rilke .

§142

If the quotation precedes the author's text, then after the ellipsis the word is written with capital letter; if the quote comes after the author's words, then after the ellipsis is used lowercase letter : “... Olesha's books fully express his being, whether it's Envy, or Three Fat Men, or polished little stories,” wrote V. Lidin; V. Lidin wrote: “... Olesha’s books fully express his being, whether it’s Envy, or Three Fat Men, or polished short stories” .

§143

The quotation included in the author's proposal as its component is highlighted quotation marks(but begins with a lowercase letter), punctuation marks are used only those that are dictated by the author's sentence itself: The thought of L. N. Tolstoy “time is the relation of the movement of one’s life to the movement of other beings”, expressed in his diaries, has a philosophical content .

If the quotation is not an independent sentence and ends with an ellipsis, then after the closing quotation marks a dot is placed, referring to the entire sentence as a whole: Iskander noted that "wisdom is the mind, insisted on conscience ...". Wed: Academician I. P. Pavlov wrote that “an idea without development is dead; stereotyping in scientific thought is death; nobility is the most dangerous poison" . – Academician I. P. Pavlov wrote that “an idea without development is dead; stereotyping in scientific thought is death…” . – Academician I. P. Pavlov wrote: “An idea without development is dead; stereotyping in scientific thought is death…”(In the first and second cases, the dot after the closing quotation marks refers to the entire sentence as a whole; in the third, the quotation is framed as an independent sentence that has its own final sign (ellipsis), so there is no dot after the closing quotation mark.)

§144

When shortening a quotation that already has ellipsis that perform one or another function inherent to them, the ellipsis set by the author citing the text, indicating the abbreviation of the quote, is enclosed in angle brackets: In the diary of L. N. Tolstoy we read: “She cannot renounce her feelings<…>. In her, like in all women, feeling prevails, and every change occurs, perhaps, regardless of reason, in feeling ... Maybe Tanya is right that this will gradually pass by itself.<…>» .

§145

If there is already a quote in the quoted text, then they use quotation marks of various shapes - “cutes” ( „“ ) and Christmas trees ( «» ). "Paws" (or "paws") - an internal sign; "Christmas trees" - external. For example: “Respect for the past is the feature that distinguishes education from savagery,” Pushkin once said. Near this line, it seems, we have now stopped, realizing that it is impossible to step back, and not daring, but getting ready and getting ready to move forward, to true respect.(Spread).

§146

If it is necessary for the quoter to highlight individual words of the quote, this selection is specified in brackets: ( emphasized by us. – N.V.); (our italics. – N.V.); (our discharge. - Ed.). For example: “Whoever wants to study man in history must be able to analyze historical (allocated by us. – N.V.) emotions"(Yu. Lotman).

If the citing person inserts his own explanatory text into the quotation or expands the abbreviated word, then this explanation is enclosed in square or angle brackets: "Thank you for admiring Moore[son of M. Tsvetaeva] ... ”- M. Tsvetaeva writes to B. Pasternak in 1927; “The stairs must have been read! P[because] h[then] Leia read. Get it from her, correct the typos,” writes M. Tsvetaeva to B. Pasternak in 1927.

§147

References to the author and source of citation are enclosed in brackets; The dot that ends the quotation is placed after the closing parenthesis. For example: “To think pedagogically broadly means to be able to see educational meaning in any social phenomenon” (Azarov Y. Learning to teach // New World. 1987. No. 4. S. 242).

If a quotation ends with a question mark, exclamation mark, or ellipsis, then these characters retain their place (before the closing quotation mark). When listing examples, the dot after the closing bracket is replaced with a semicolon: “How mysterious you are, thunderstorm!” (I. Bunin. The fields smell...); “Don't leave your loved ones. There are no former lovers in the world ... " (A. Voznesensky. Poems. M., 2001. S. 5).

If an indication of the author or the cited source is placed below the quotation, in particular with epigraphs, then the brackets are removed, as are the quotation marks in the quotation, and a sign corresponding to this sentence is placed at the end of the quotation. For example:

White rose with black toad

I wanted to get married on earth.

S. Yesenin

You don't love me, you love mine!

F. Dostoevsky

… why so often

I feel sorry for the whole world and sorry for the person?

N. Zabolotsky

Painting teaches to look and see...

A. Blok

Quoting quotation marks and "foreign" words

§148

quotation marks quotes (alien speech) are highlighted, included in the author's text, including direct speech (see § 140–145).

Without quotes poetic quotations are drawn up if they are given with the preservation of the author's stanza. The highlighting function is taken over by the position in the text:

The twelfth - the last and short - chapter of the book begins. The twelfth hour of the short life of Alexander Blok strikes.

Only in the terrible morning fog

the clock strikes for the last time...

One thousand nine hundred and twentieth year has come, the fourth year of the new, October era(Eagle).

Not enclosed in quotation marks and direct speech when transmitting dialogue using paragraph articulation (see § 138), since the position in the text takes on the highlighting function.

§149

Quotes are allocated other people's words included in the author's text, when their belonging to another person is indicated: This happened in the spring of 1901, which Blok called"extremely important" (Eagle); Pasternak writes: "... in my individual case, life turned into artistic implementation, as it was born from fate and experience." But what is"fate and experience" in"special case" Pasternak? This is again"artistic transformation" , with whom meetings, correspondence, conversations were connected - with Mayakovsky, Tsvetaeva, Aseev, Paolo Yashvili, Titian Tabidze(Likh.); Jordan loved Kiprensky and called him"kind soul" (Paust.); Pasternak's struggle for"unheard of simplicity" poetic language was a struggle not for its comprehensibility, but for its originality, originality - the absence of poetic secondary, primitive traditionalism ...(Likh.).

Quoting unusually used words

§150

quotation marks words are distinguished that are alien to the writer's vocabulary: words used in an unusual (special, professional) meaning, words belonging to a special, often narrow circle of people communicating: I poked the paddle, kid"dal var" (Shv.); The grass did not fade for a long time. Only blue haze (popularly called"mga" ) tightened the reaches on the Oka and distant forests."Mga" then thickened, then turned pale(Paust.); Sasha lives"on bread" in a town house(Boon.); A solution of calcium sulfate salts from gypsum can go into the microscopic pores of ceramics and give"efflorescence" on the surface of the work there are whitish spots under the glaze. Ideally, only ceramics would take root on ceramics. Such"implant" would age in sync with the original(journal).

§151

quotation marks different style words are highlighted, the ironic meaning of the word is emphasized, an indication is given of the double meaning of the word or the meaning known only to the person to whom the words are addressed: ...Many pages of the English classic novel"break" from the wealth of the material world and sparkle with this wealth(M. Urnov) (a different style word in a scientific text); ... The mystery of this mysterious acquisition, a generous gift for"services" , serves as an example of ambiguous interpretations(M. Urnov) (ironic meaning of the word); As long as it's a secret, don't say anything"there" known to you"person" (Ch.) ( there, person- the meaning of the words is known only to the addressee); I began to take exams ... when"decent persons" they were not kept(Eagle) (indication of a special, secret meaning of the word); ... And if not for this thesis, it is still unknown what the departmental"bewilderment" (Hall.) (ironically-reprehensible use of the word); And so every day"dawn" before"dawn" . BUT"dawn" - this is a special article used by the guard in the guardhouse in the morning and evening(Gil.) (double sense - generally accepted and conditional).

§152

quotation marks words are used in a special, often conditional meaning: After all, the zero cycle -"non-dusty" cycle, it does not require numerous subcontractors and suppliers(Hall.).

§153

The quotation marks emphasize the purely grammatical unusualness of the use of words, for example, when parts of speech or whole turns that are not intended to express these functions are used as members of a sentence: "Want?" , "let it be you" sounded in my ears and produced a kind of intoxication; I didn’t see anything or anyone except Sonya(L. T.); From his friendly"I've been waiting for you" she cheered up(B.P.).

Hello girls and boys! Not like me, but still decided to write an informative article. This article is about such well-known and frequently used signs as (c), ™, (R) and a little less well-known (ↄ).

So let's start with Copyright sign - (With)(the Latin letter "s" from the English "copyright" - i.e. "copyright", if in Russian). What does this symbol mean, and why do gnomecs living in VKontakte put it at the end of quotes, poems and other products of mental onanism? And they put it in order to indicate that this is a copy-paste (the moped is not mine ...), but in response to the question: "why the Copyright Mark?" refer to Lurk.


Great Lurk says:

"(c) , as well as (c); a stigma that is placed on the content, ineptly imitating the copyist symbol; Tyoma's morning fap object ( this refers to the warm and gentle attitude to the copyright law of many publishers and "creators", and in particular, they hint at Artemy Lebedev). On one's own
on forums and on other Internets, it is used to highlight and underline a certain well-known quote. It is usually assumed that the author of the quotation is also widely known, and therefore is not indicated, and the quotation itself serves as an argument.
.."
"Sometimes after the author writes his name or nickname, as if trying to tell us that he has a brain and even knows how to type."

That is, (c) here means that the text under which this squiggle is placed is a copy, and the person who posted it is not the author of the text. Here so accepted, yes ... and it's pretty funny, since initially (c) was (yes, in fact, it is still considered as such in some circles) with a symbol denoting a statement about the authorship of the text (or other product of mental labor).

Quote not from Wiki:
"The icon is necessary in order to show your exclusive right to the work, to the inaccessibility of free copying by third parties. The icon is recommended to be placed at the bottom of the site or after each blog post."

Thus, Pasha Barsukov writes to himself on the wall in VK: "DAO, which can be expressed in words, is not a permanent Tao. (c)" thus declaring his copyright on a quote from the Tao De Ching and forbids its copying by third parties o_O. Another thing is when the text is posted by someone Fuck
Khrenov, since most likely this is still a nickname, and not the name of an individual (however, it happens that we are not so lucky with names) and therefore this sign has no power and can be regarded as the notorious copy-paste designation.

So (c) is put alone to indicate copy-paste (where this came from is a mystery to me) and this is more of a meme than a copyright statement (i.e. completely opposite in meaning).

Next we have "™" and "(R)", which many people like to put next to their name. Everything is much simpler for me, because these fashionable badges are well written on Lurk.

Quote:
"(eng. Trade Mark, rus. trade mark) sign. Something reminiscent , used after the name of a product to emphasize
that the name is registered and cannot be used. In this Russia, the sign ™ does not mean anything at all, at all. By law, you can use the ® mark, the words "trademark" or "registered trademark".

That is, if you want to give your name, face, left hand or other part of the body the status of a trademark that no one can use without your consent, stick it on T-shirts, draw in entrances and on icons, but at the same time you yourself can sell it , rent out, and in every possible way get out then put (R ). The only caveat: the sign (R) will not have any power (except for giving a certain semantic shade to the object to which it is attached, of course (about the meanings in the article from Lurk)) if it is not registered with the relevant authorities. The sign ™, as we found out, in Russia in general does not have any power in principle. So it goes.

Well, about the less known (ↄ) (apparently because the symbol "(ↄ)" is a little more difficult to enter than " "since it is not available in Unicode, which is explained by the conspiracy theory as "because of the dislike of this sign by information corporations and publishers (explanation below)"). This sign is pronounced by mouth as "copyleft" (copyleft is a pun ... copyleft, copyright - understandable, right?).

The sign (ↄ), in contrast to (c), does not prohibit the use of a product of mental labor without the knowledge of the author, but on the contrary, it prohibits the commercial use of it and any restriction of it ( and its modifications, products created on its basis) distribution to anyone. The history of the sign is quite interesting, and, as it were, hints about why this sign is not so loved on the Internet. The concept of copyleft originated in the early 80s of the last century. Richard Stallman is considered its author (although there is an opinion that our compatriot Evgeny Leonidovich Kosarev, a leading researcher at the Kapitsa Research Institute (then), could have been its author, since at the same time he voiced a concept similar to Stolpanovskaya). This concept was developed in relation to software and setting itself the task of free distribution of software to accelerate scientific processes in society and maintain the purity of research from commercial purposes, one of its points stated that not only software intended for free distribution (and, accordingly, certified by the sign (ↄ)) should be distributed free of charge, but programs created on its basis, its modifications and upgrades should also be distributed freely and no one has the right to restrict access to them. It is clear that this concept was not supported by the information giants, and indeed by all those who make money on restricting access to information (or on providing it). And even more so, those who like to sell plagiarism, bypassing the copyright law, were not particularly happy with such thoughts.
law with the help of various tricks.

Of course, the concept of copyleft was developed for software, and is used (debatably, semi-legally because it is not always recognized (and if recognized, then
is understood differently by everyone), has no legal force) to the software, but my perverted mind manages to apply it to this text, because I, as the author, do not want to restrict access to it in any way, and consider it the property of all people. Putting (ↄ) at the end of the text, I declare that, as the author, I allow its free distribution, and forbid any restriction of access to it (although no one needs it for free, but nevertheless I like the chip, but the sign resembles enso which makes me happy ;)).

My text is shit - it is clear, but nevertheless, here I tried to explain some points using some signs often used in the Internet environment. I hope, user, I have helped you in some way, and perhaps even enriched your knowledge base and made a small contribution to your orientation

(this is how every lewdness that is now associated with this word comes to mind, but I do not mean sexual orientation) in this world.

For those who like the above icons: , , ® , (ↄ).

This text is written for the benefit of all living beings. OM guys!

(ↄ) Luka Krivorukov

Rules of Russian spelling and punctuation. Complete academic reference book Lopatin Vladimir Vladimirovich

Quote punctuation marks

Quote punctuation marks

§ 140. Quotes are concluded in quotation marks and are punctuated in the same way as direct speech (see § 133-136):

a) Marcus Aurelius said: “Pain is a living idea of ​​pain: make an effort of will to change this idea, throw it away, stop complaining, and the pain will disappear”(Ch.); Remember the words of L. N. Tolstoy more often: “A person has only duties!”; M. Aliger has the lines: “A person needs very little for happiness to grow to its full height”; L. N. Tolstoy has an interesting comparison: “Just as an eye has an eyelid, so a fool has self-confidence to protect himself from the possibility of defeating his vanity. And both, the more they take care of themselves, the less they see - they close their eyes.;

b) “Whoever shoots the past with a pistol, the future will shoot with a cannon,” wrote R. Gamzatov; “He is not a writer who has not added at least a little vigilance to a person’s vision,” said K. Paustovsky;

in) “In order to create something,” wrote Goethe, “one must be something”; “If on Nikola (December 19), - the book said, - the day is cold and clear - by the grain-growing year”(Sol.);

G) Pascal's saying: "Whoever knows how to suggest that he is not very cunning, he is far from simple" - sounds aphoristic; Picasso's words: "Art is an emanation of pain and sadness" - have a deep meaning.

§ 141. If the quotation is incomplete, then the gap is indicated ellipsis(at the beginning of a quote, in the middle or at the end):

a) “... If good has a reason, it is no longer good; if good has a consequence, then it is no longer good. Good is beyond effects and causes,” wrote Leo Tolstoy in his diaries; “... The poem develops into my memories, which at least once a year (often in December) require me to do something with them,” A. Akhmatova notes in “Prose about the Poem”;

b) “The biography of the heroine ... is written in one of my notebooks,” writes A. Akhmatova in one of her letters from Komarov;

in) “Goethe somewhere says that nothing significant can be created in a foreign language - I always thought that this was not true ...” - wrote M. Tsvetaeva in 1926 to Rilke.

§ 142. If the quotation precedes the author's text, then after the ellipsis the word is written with capital letter; if the quote comes after the author's words, then after the ellipsis is used lowercase letter: “... Olesha's books fully express his being, whether it's Envy, or Three Fat Men, or polished little stories,” wrote V. Lidin; V. Lidin wrote: “... Olesha’s books fully express his being, whether it’s Envy, or Three Fat Men, or polished short stories”.

§ 143. The quotation included in the author's proposal as its component is highlighted quotation marks(but begins with a lowercase letter), punctuation marks are used only those that are dictated by the author's sentence itself: The thought of L. N. Tolstoy “time is the relation of the movement of one’s life to the movement of other beings”, expressed in his diaries, has a philosophical content.

If the quotation is not an independent sentence and ends with an ellipsis, then after the closing quotation marks a dot is placed, referring to the entire sentence as a whole: Iskander noted that "wisdom is the mind insisted on conscience ...". Wed: Academician I. P. Pavlov wrote that “an idea without development is dead; stereotyping in scientific thought is death; nobility is the most dangerous poison". - Academician I. P. Pavlov wrote that “an idea without development is dead; stereotyping in scientific thought is doom…”. - Academician I. P. Pavlov wrote: “An idea without development is dead; stereotyping in scientific thought is doom…”(In the first and second cases, the period after the closing quotation marks refers to the entire sentence as a whole; in the third, the quotation is framed as an independent sentence with its own final sign (ellipsis), so there is no period after the closing quotation mark.)

§ 144. When shortening a quotation that already has ellipsis that perform one or another function inherent to them, the ellipsis set by the author citing the text, indicating the abbreviation of the quote, is enclosed in angle brackets: In the diary of L. N. Tolstoy we read: “She cannot renounce her feelings<…>. In her, like in all women, feeling prevails, and every change occurs, perhaps, regardless of reason, in feeling ... Maybe Tanya is right that this will gradually pass by itself.<…>» .

§ 145. If there is already a quote in the quoted text, then they use quotation marks of various forms - “cutes” ( „“ ) and Christmas trees ( «» ). "Paws" (or "paws") - an internal sign; "Christmas trees" - external. For example: ““Respect for the past is the feature that distinguishes education from savagery,” Pushkin once said. Near this line, it seems, we have now stopped, realizing that it is impossible to step back, and not daring, but getting ready and getting ready to move forward, to true respect.(Spread).

§ 146. If it is necessary for the quoter to highlight individual words of the quote, this selection is specified in brackets: ( emphasized by us. - N.V.); (our italics. - N.V.); (our discharge. - Ed.). For example: “Whoever wants to study man in history must be able to analyze historical ( allocated by us. - N.V.) emotions"(Yu. Lotman).

If the citing person inserts his own explanatory text into the quotation or expands the abbreviated word, then this explanation is enclosed in square or angle brackets: "Thank you for admiring Moore[son of M. Tsvetaeva] ... ”- M. Tsvetaeva writes to B. Pasternak in 1927; “The stairs must have been read! P[because] h[then] Leia read. Get it from her, correct the typos, ”M. Tsvetaeva writes to B. Pasternak in 1927.

§ 147. References to the author and source of citation are enclosed in brackets; The dot that ends the quotation is placed after the closing parenthesis. For example: “To think pedagogically broadly means to be able to see educational meaning in any social phenomenon” (Azarov Y. Learning to teach // New World. 1987. No. 4. S. 242).

If a quotation ends with a question mark, exclamation mark, or ellipsis, then these characters retain their place (before the closing quotation mark). When listing examples, the dot after the closing bracket is replaced with a semicolon: “How mysterious you are, thunderstorm!” (I. Bunin. The fields smell...); “Don't leave your loved ones. There are no former lovers in the world ... " (A. Voznesensky. Poems. M., 2001. S. 5).

If an indication of the author or the cited source is placed below the quotation, in particular with epigraphs, then the brackets are removed, as are the quotation marks in the quotation, and a sign corresponding to this sentence is placed at the end of the quotation. For example:

White rose with black toad

I wanted to get married on earth.

S. Yesenin

You don't love me, you love mine!

F. Dostoevsky

… why so often

I feel sorry for the whole world and sorry for the person?

N. Zabolotsky

Painting teaches to look and see...

From the book Handbook of the Russian language. Punctuation author Rosenthal Ditmar Elyashevich

§ 51. Punctuation marks during dialogue 1. If the replicas of the dialogue are given each from a paragraph, then a dash is placed in front of them: - So, is the German calm? - Silence. - Rockets? - Yes, but not very often (Kaz.) .2. If the replicas follow the selection without indicating to whom they belong, then each of them

From the book Great Soviet Encyclopedia (ZN) of the author TSB

SECTION 15 Punctuation marks for quotations § 54. Quotation marks for quotations 1. Quotations are enclosed in quotation marks. If the quotation is framed as direct speech, i.e., accompanied by the words of the author who cites it, then the appropriate punctuation rules apply (see § 47 - 50): Belinsky wrote:

From the book Spelling and Style Guide author Rosenthal Ditmar Elyashevich

§ 71. Alternative punctuation marks 1. With complex subordinating conjunctions, a comma is placed once - either before the entire union, or, depending on the meaning, intonation, certain lexical conditions, before the second part (the first is part of the main part

From the book A Guide to Spelling, Pronunciation, Literary Editing author Rosenthal Ditmar Elyashevich

§ 72. Variable punctuation marks Often in the press there is a different punctuation design of similar texts. For example, it was said above that different punctuation marks can precede the connecting construction: comma, dash, period, ellipsis (see § 24,

From the book Rules of Russian Spelling and Punctuation. Complete Academic Handbook author Lopatin Vladimir Vladimirovich

From the book Rock Encyclopedia. Popular music in Leningrad-Petersburg, 1965–2005. Volume 1 author Burlaka Andrey Petrovich

§ 123. Punctuation marks during dialogue If the replicas of the dialogue are given from a new paragraph, then a dash is placed before them, for example: - Do you have relatives? - There is no one. I am alone in the world. - Do you know grammar? - Yes. Do you know any language other than Aramaic? - I know. Greek (Bulgakov). If a

From the author's book

XXXII. Punctuation marks for quotations § 124. Quotation marks for quotations 1. Quotations are enclosed in quotation marks. If the quotation is formalized as direct speech, that is, accompanied by the words of the author who cites it, then the appropriate punctuation rules apply (see § 119 - 122): Belinsky wrote:

From the author's book

§ 123. Punctuation marks during dialogue 1. If the replicas of the dialogue are given from a new paragraph, then a dash is placed in front of them, for example: - So, is the German calm? - Silence. - Rockets! - Yes, but not very often (Kazakevich) .2. If the replicas follow the selection without indicating who they belong to, then

From the author's book

XXXII. PUNCIATION MARKS FOR QUOTATIONS § 124. Quotation marks for quotations 1. Quotations are enclosed in quotation marks. If the quotation is framed as direct speech, that is, accompanied by the words of the author who cites it, then the appropriate punctuation rules apply (see § 119–122). Belinsky wrote:

From the author's book

PUNCUNCATION AT THE END AND AT THE BEGINNING OF A SENTENCE. ENDING SIGNS IN THE MIDDLE OF A SENTENCE Punctuation marks at the end of a sentence § 1. Depending on the purpose of the message, the presence or absence of emotional coloring of the statement, a period is put at the end of the sentence

From the author's book

Punctuation marks at the beginning of a sentence § 4. At the beginning of a sentence, to indicate a logical or meaningful break in the text, a sharp transition from one thought to another (at the beginning of a paragraph), an ellipsis is placed: But only the wheels rattled in the black void: Ka-ten-ka,

From the author's book

punctuation marks for the nominative topic § 23. The nominative case (the nominative of the topic or presentation) as a syntactic structure before the sentence, the topic of which it represents, is separated by punctuation marks corresponding to the end of the sentence - a dot,

From the author's book

Punctuation marks for inserts § 97. Inserted constructions (words, combinations of words, sentences) are distinguished by brackets or dashes. They contain additional information, comments, clarifications, explanations, amendments to what has been said; explain, interpret the main part of the statement: Since 1851

From the author's book

PUNICATION SIGNS IN APPEALS § 101. Address, that is, words and combinations of words that name the addressee of the speech, is highlighted (or separated) by commas. With increased emotionality, an exclamation mark is put after the appeal: Congratulations, comrades, on a safe arrival

From the author's book

PUNCIATION MARKS FOR DIRECT SPEECH AND QUOTATIONS

From the author's book

PUNCIATION MARKS The PUNICATION SIGNS group was born in June 1988 as a kind of reaction to a change in the musical course in the popular St. Petersburg group of the second half of the 80s JUNIOR BROTHERS - from melodic neo-romanticism and electropop towards hard guitar

Quotations are able to decorate the text, confirming or more widely revealing the idea expressed by the author, therefore, probably, they are willingly used both in journalism and in scientific works. But sometimes introducing a quote into the text can cause difficulties in terms of punctuation.

In this article, we will try to remember the rules for quoting in different ways to include them in the text. Let's remember which ones to use in this case, as well as ways to highlight some words in the quoted passage.

What is a quote: an example

A quotation is a literal reproduction of what was said, while being inextricably linked in meaning with the text where this passage is included.

Old age is, first of all, the experience accumulated throughout life. As the great Faina Ranevskaya once said: “Memories are the wealth of old age.”

Combining several passages from different places in a work in one quote is not allowed. They should be formatted as different quotations. A mandatory requirement is the presence of an indication of its source.

If the place you cited does not begin at the beginning of the original sentence, then an ellipsis is put in the quote there. This sign is also put in place of all the missing words in the passage.

“... A smart person knows how to get out of a difficult situation, but a wise person never gets into it,” Ranevskaya emphasized.

As indicated by the author or source of the quoted passage

We will not talk about how a bibliographic footnote is formatted in this article, but we will discuss the ways in which the author or source of the cited is indicated. The rules of good manners require you to do this every time you use someone else's thought.

“Incompetent people have a tendency to draw unequivocal and categorical conclusions” (David Dunning).

Please note that the point after the quote in this version is not put, it is put only after the link! By the way, if the first word in brackets indicating the source is not a proper name, then it is written with a small letter.

“Incompetent people tend to draw unequivocal and categorical conclusions” (from an article by psychologist David Dunning).

If the design of citations in the text requires the author's name or their source to be placed on another line, then they are written without brackets and other punctuation marks. And after the quote itself, a period or any necessary sign is put.

Incompetent people have a tendency to unequivocal and categorical conclusions.

David Dunning

The same rule applies to epigraphs.

Emphasis within quotes

If there are author's selections in the passage cited as a citation, they are kept in the same form as in the original source. The design of citations does not require special emphasis that these marks belong to the author. In cases where the citing person wants to highlight something, he must make a corresponding footnote. To do this, indicate in brackets: “my italics” or “highlighted by me” - and put the initials.

A. Startsev spoke about the writer O. Henry: “Endowed by nature with a rare gift to see the fun ..., he faced the tragic in life ..., but in most cases, preferred to remain silent about it(my italics - I.I.)”.

“The literary tradition that connected their names (Gogol and Ostrovsky - I.I.) is significant. After all, Ostrovsky was at first perceived as a direct successor to the work of Gogol ... "

Ways in which quotations are put into context

Quotes can be entered into a sentence as direct speech. In these cases, and in Russian, they are put in the same way as when highlighting direct speech.

I. Zakharov emphasizes: “Ranevskaya made cruel decisions to others, resembling decisions of the courts. But she didn't spare herself."

In cases where the quote should be separated by the words of the author, it looks like this:

“His Majesty remains completely confident,” wrote A.S. Pushkin A.Kh. Benckendorff - that you will use your excellent abilities to pass on the glory of our Fatherland to the offspring ... "

If the quote is an addition, or it is included in the subordinate clause, then no signs other than quotation marks are put, and the quote itself begins with a small letter, even if it was written with a capital letter in the source:

At one time, the philosopher J. Locke said that "there is nothing in the intellect that would not be in the feeling."

at the end of the quote

Separately, you need to consider the design of a quote in a letter in situations where you need to decide on punctuation marks at the end of it - before and after quotes.

  • If the quoted phrase ends with an ellipsis, question mark or exclamation point, then they are placed before the quotation marks:

She exclaimed: “By obeying all the rules, you deprive yourself of many pleasures!”

  • And in a situation where there are no signs before the quotation marks in the quote, a period is put at the end of the sentence, but only after them:

Ranevskaya lamented: "85 years with diabetes is not sugar."

  • If the quote is part of a subordinate clause, then a dot should be put after the quotes, even if they already have either an exclamation mark, a question mark, or an ellipsis before them:

Marlene Dietrich rightly believed that "tenderness is the best proof of love than the most passionate vows ...".

Lowercase or at the beginning of a quote?

If a quotation is placed after a colon, then it is necessary to pay attention to what letter it began with in the original source. If with a lowercase letter, then the quote is written with a small one, only an ellipsis is placed before the text:

Describing A.S. Pushkin, I.A. Goncharov emphasized: "... in the gestures accompanying his speech, there was a restraint of a secular, well-bred person."

If the cited passage begins with a capital letter, then the design of quotations occurs in the same way as in direct speech - with a capital letter after the colon.

V. Lakshin wrote about A.N. Ostrovsky: "A lot continues to sound in these plays with lively joy and pain, echoing in our soul."

Some more nuances of the designation of quotes

And how to designate a quote if you need to quote only one word or phrase? In such cases, the quoted word is enclosed in quotation marks and introduced into the sentence with a small letter:

V. Lakshin emphasized that the faces in Ostrovsky's comedies are historically accurate and "ethnographically bright."

In situations where the original source of the quotation is not freely available (there is no translation into Russian or this is a rare edition), then when quoting, you should indicate: “op. on".

Is it possible to change something in the quoted passage

The design of citations requires not only compliance with the rules of punctuation, but also a correct attitude to the quoted text. On the part of the author of the article in which these passages are cited, only a few deviations from their original state are allowed:

  • the use of modern spelling and punctuation, if the manner of writing and placement of characters is not a sign of the individual style of the author;
  • restoration of abbreviated words, but with the obligatory conclusion of the added part in, for example, sv-in - sv [st] in;
  • the design of quotations also allows the omission of individual words in them, indicating the place of the omission with an ellipsis, if this does not distort the general meaning of the quoted passage;
  • when including individual phrases or words, you can change their case so as not to violate the syntactic structure of the phrase in which they are included.

If the author needs to additionally express his attitude to the quoted passage or to some of its words, he, as a rule, puts a question or exclamation mark enclosed in parentheses after them.

Not only punctuation marks in Russian should serve to convey a quote

For an author writing a scientific or literary work, a quotation is a convincing and economical technique that allows you to present facts to the reader, generalize them and, of course, confirm your idea with reference to authoritative sources.

In non-scientific texts, quotation is often a means of emotional impact. But we must not forget that the passage quoted must be transmitted accurately. After all, even in the definition of the concept of "quote" it is emphasized that this is a verbatim passage from a text. And from this it follows that not only the text itself, but also the punctuation marks that the author has, as well as the highlights that he has, must be reproduced without distortion.

And this can equally be attributed to both official documents and emotional excerpts from fiction. Only by remembering this, one can fully understand what a quotation is. An example of a careful attitude to the quoted material is, first of all, respect for the author who wrote the lines you cite.

Quote, or excerpt, - a text from a work, reproduced verbatim by the author in the publication, in order to substantiate his own statements or refute the quoted author, etc.

What are the rules for the design of quotations, depending on its location in the phrase and the syntactic relations between it, the preceding and following text?

1. Between the words of the quoting person and the following quotation:

  1. put a colon if the words preceding the quote warn that the quote will follow; for example:
    I.S. Nikitin wrote: "... not to read - for me it means not to live ..."
  2. they put an end if, despite the warning nature of the text preceding the quotation, there are words of the quoting person inside the quotation or after it, introducing the quotation into the text of the phrase; for example:
    I.S. brightly said this. Nikitin. "... Not to read - for me it means not to live ..." - writes the poet N.I. Vtorov.
  3. do not put any signs if the quotation appears in relation to the text preceding it as an addition or as part of a subordinate clause that began in the text of the quoting person; for example:
    S.I. Vavilov demanded "... by all means to save mankind from reading bad, unnecessary books."
    S.I. Vavilov believed that it was necessary "... by all means to save mankind from reading bad, unnecessary books."

2. After closing quotation marks in a phrase ending in a quotation:

  1. put a period if there is no ellipsis, exclamation mark or question mark before these quotes; for example:
    A.N. Sokolov writes: "Misunderstanding is the absence of association."
  2. put a full stop if there is an ellipsis, question mark or exclamation mark before the closing quotes, but the quote is not an independent sentence, but acts as a member of the sentence in which it is included (usually such quotes are part of a subordinate clause); for example:
    Gogol wrote about Manilov that "in his eyes he was a prominent person ...".
  3. do not put any signs if there is an ellipsis, a question mark or an exclamation mark before the closing quotes, and the quote enclosed in quotes is an independent sentence (as a rule, all quotes after the colon separating them from the words of the quoter preceding them are such); for example:
    Pechorin wrote: "I don't remember a bluer and fresher morning!"
    Pechorin admitted: "I sometimes despise myself ..."
    Pechorin asks: "And why did fate throw me into the peaceful circle of honest smugglers?"

3. In a phrase with a quote in the middle:

  1. before a quote, a colon is put or not put according to the same rules as before a quote, which ends the phrase of the quoting person (see paragraph 1a);
  2. after the quotes closing the quotation, a comma is put if the quotation is part of a participial phrase that ends with it, or a subordinate clause that also ends with it; for example:
    So, ninth-graders, after reading the phrase: "The British especially vigilantly guarded the sea route to India," they asked themselves...
    or completes the first part of a compound sentence:
    Several editors have read the following text: "The young reader is especially moved by books in which he seeks answers to vital questions," and none of them noticed a gross logical error;
    or a quotation completes the main clause, followed by a subordinate clause:
    And then you have to read: "The viewer met with E. Vitsin ...", although Vitsin's name is George.
  3. a dash is placed after the quotes closing the quote, if, according to the conditions of the context, it is not necessary to separate the subsequent text with a comma (in particular, in the text the subject is before the quote, and in the text after it the predicate or before the quote there is one homogeneous member, and after it is joined by the union "and" another):
    The author, after the phrase: "Production management is based on a scientific basis" - so quotes ...
    or a quote ends with an ellipsis, exclamation mark, or question mark:
    When a literary worker was signing an answer to a reader's question: "Are vitamins preserved in fruit juices?" He didn't seem to care...
    or a dash must be placed according to the rules of punctuation between the part of the phrase before the quote and the part of the phrase after it:
    To say: "sensible representation is the reality existing outside of us" means to return to Humeism...
  4. after a poetic quotation put a punctuation mark, which refers to the entire text with a quote, at the end of the last poetic line; for example:
    In nature, "life is like a boundless ocean", and even the fact that it is for a person
    blissfully indifferent,
    As befits the deities (1.96),
    does not cast a shadow on the call ...

4. In a phrase with the quoter's words inside the quote:

  1. if there is a comma, a semicolon, a colon, a dash or no punctuation marks at the place where the quote breaks, then the words of the quoter are separated from the text of the quote on both sides by a comma and a dash; for example:
    in source:
    I became incapable of noble impulses...
    in the edition with the quote:
    “I,” Pechorin admits, “became incapable of noble impulses ...”
  2. if there is a dot at the place where the quote breaks, then a comma and a dash are put before the words of the quoting person, and after these words - a dot and a dash, starting the second part of the quote with a capital letter; for example:
    in source:
    ...My heart turns to stone and nothing will warm it up again. I'm ready for any sacrifice...
    in the edition with the quote:
    "... My heart turns to stone, and nothing will warm up again," concludes Pechorin. "I am ready for all sacrifices ..."
  3. if there is a question or exclamation mark at the place where the quote breaks, then this sign and a dash are placed before the words of the quoter, and after the words of the quoter - a dot and a dash or a comma and a dash, starting the second part with an uppercase or lowercase letter, depending on which letter it began in a quote after an exclamation or question mark; for example:
    in source:
    I sometimes despise myself... isn't that why I despise others too?...
    I became incapable of noble impulses; I'm afraid to seem ridiculous to myself.
    ... Forgive love! my heart turns to stone and nothing will warm it up again.

    in the edition with the quote:
    “Sometimes I despise myself ... is it because I despise others too? .. - Pechorin admits. - I have become incapable of noble impulses ... "
    "... Forgive love! - writes Pechorin in his journal, - my heart turns to stone, and nothing will warm it up again."
  4. if there is an ellipsis at the place where the quote breaks, then an ellipsis and a dash are placed before the words of the quoter, and a comma and a dash after the words of the quoter; for example:
    “Sometimes I despise myself ...,” Pechorin admits, “isn’t that why I despise others too? ..”
  5. if there are two verbs in the words of the quoting person, one of which refers to the first part of the quotation, and the other to the second, then after the first part of the quotation put a punctuation mark that stood at the place where the quotation broke, and a dash, and after the words of the quoting person a colon and a dash; for example:
    “Sometimes I despise myself ... isn’t that why I despise others too?” Pechorin asks and admits: “I have become incapable of noble impulses ...”

5. In a phrase that begins with a quote:

  1. if the quotation in the source ended with a dot, then after the quotation, a comma and a dash are placed before the words of the quoting person; for example:
    in source:
    ... I'm afraid to seem ridiculous to myself.
    in the edition with the quote:
    "I'm afraid to seem ridiculous to myself," wrote Pechorin.
  2. if the quote in the source ended with an ellipsis, a question mark or an exclamation mark, then after the quote, a dash is placed before the words of the quoting person; for example:
    in source:
    I sometimes despise myself... isn't that why I despise others too?...
    in the edition with the quote:
    "Sometimes I despise myself ..." Pechorin admits.

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