What is required to set apart a direct quotation? a. quotation marks b. parentheses c. brackets d. ellipses select the best answer from the choices provided a b c d

The correct answer is A.

Quotation marks ( quotes, speech marks, inverted comas, talking marks) are punctuation marks used in pairs to set off direct speech, a quotation or a phrase. The pair consists of the opening quotation marks and closing quotation marks.

Quotation marks set apart a direct quotation. An example: My mother said "don't do it" when I wanted to enter her room.

Quotation marks are also used to mark a title, a direct speech or a square quote.

ich statement best shows a problem in travels with charley?

one sharp difficulty presented itself. in the intervening twenty-five years my name had become reasonably well known.

this being so, my trip demanded that i leave my name and my identity at home.

i had to go alone and i had to be self-contained, a kind of casual turtle carrying his house on his back.

with all this in mind i wrote to the head office of a great corporation which manufactures trucks.

c. to depict the cunningness of the federal soldiers