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Understanding meaning

Quotation comes from the word quote.

A quotation is something that someone else said or wrote.

We use quotation marks “...” to show which words someone else said or wrote.

For example:

"To be or not to be" is a famous quotation from a play called Hamlet which was written by Shakespeare.

I brought quotations from many experts to show that they all said the same thing that I am saying.

Which answers are closest in meaning to quotation? Choose the 3 correct answers.

saying what someone said or wrote but in different words

words that you take directly from a book, speech or movie

writing the exact words that someone else wrote

repeating exactly what someone else said