What is the most important reason for citing a source when quoting it directly?

Answer,

To give credit to the source

Explanation

-Citing a source means to show, within the body of a given text, that the writer took words, ideas, figures, images, etc. from another  source.

-It is important to cite sourses you used in your research for several reasons ;

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