quotation

«quotation» in Mova's school dictionary: Words copied exactly from a book, speech or person… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a quotation, quotations)

meaning for a pupil

1) Words copied exactly from a book, speech or person, usually shown with quotation marks: "To be or not to be" is a famous quotation. tree →

2) A price that a builder or company says a job will cost; a quote. tree →

3) «Quotation marks» are the signs ' ' or " " put around spoken or copied words. tree →

sense in the lessons

In English lessons pupils use quotation marks for speech and use quotations from texts as evidence. In maths and everyday life: «The quotation for painting the fence is $240» — compare quotations to find the cheapest. Phrases: «quotation marks», «a famous quotation», «get a quotation», «in quotation marks».

examples

• Put quotation marks around the words the character says. tree →
• Find a quotation from the poem to support your answer. tree →
• The builder gave us a quotation of £500. tree →
• Which of three quotations, $120, $95 or $110, is the cheapest? tree →
• That's a famous quotation from Shakespeare. tree →
• Write the title in quotation marks. tree →
• Mum got two quotations for fixing the roof. tree →
• In giving summaries, also, I have kept closely to the text, and always translated literally the passages marked as quotations. tree →

note

Countable: quotations. Informal short form: quote (noun) — «get a quote». Verb: quote. In the UK, 'single' marks are common; in the US, "double" marks. A quotation must copy the words exactly.

In the corpora

• Quotation marks around a word can show that it isn't meant literally, like «by accident» when it was on purpose.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «quotation» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.