Grammar help - Is this phrased properly?

Question

I'm writing an essay and I was wondering if this is how this quote should be written.

This passage from pages 109-110 (Chapter 11), “...that’s what I liked about black folks all my life: They never judged me... Blacks have always been peaceful and trusting,” Ruth naively believes that everyone of that race is kind-hearted.

If you could please let me know if it is, I would greatly appreciate it. If it's not right, please explain why and revise whatever is wrong. I'm expecting educated answers. Thankyou! :)

Answer 1

This passage from pages 109-110 (Chapter 11) shows Ruth naively believes that everyone of that race is kind-hearted: “...that’s what I liked about black folks all my life: They never judged me... Blacks have always been peaceful and trusting.”

These passages from pages 109-110 (Chapter 11) show Ruth naively believes that everyone of that race is kind-hearted: “...that’s what I liked about black folks all my life: They never judged me... Blacks have always been peaceful and trusting.”

Your passage lacked a verb connecting "This passage" and "Ruth naively believes..."

I picked "show" but you can use "demonstrate" or "illustrate".

Also, it seems to me that there is more than one passage and so I gave it in the plural as well.

Answer 2

it all depends on the format your teachers want it in.



in MLA format it would be "the quote here"(Author, 109-110).

make sure the period is after the last )

Answer 3

The quotation is inserted into the middle of your sentence rather awkwardly. I suggest moving it to the end to make the sentence easier to follow. Also, I assume you meant the first chunk to be  a complete prepositional phrase, as the dangling noun phrase doesn't make any grammatical sense.

I will have to assume that you are using the citation style your teacher told you to use, although it's not really a conventional one.

So, the finished sentence would be:

If your teacher hasn't told you how to cite page numbers r you simply forgot, a clearer way to cite would be:

In this passage, Ruth naively believes that everyone of that race is kind-hearted:  Ã¢Â€Âœ...that’s what I liked about black folks all my life: They never judged me... Blacks have always been peaceful and trusting" (p. 109-110).

There are many citation styles, but that adheres close enough to most of them to keep you from looking like a complete idiot.  If your essay uses multiple books by different authors, you would want to include the author's name before the page numbers in the parentheses.

Answer 4

If you've copied it correctly from pages 109-110, and left out portions where you put in ... then it is correct with the exception of a period instead of a comma after trusting.  Although I would have liked to have seen what came before the quote.  That would have helped a lot.  Good luck.

Answer 5

it looks good to me.