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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.

repeating exactly what someone else said

writing the exact words that someone else wrote

saying what someone said or wrote but in different words

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