Parker gathered in Lexington, Massachusetts, a town near Boston. A militia is a force of armed civilians pledged to defend their community. About one-third of the Lexington militia were Minutemen, trained to âact at a minuteâs warning.â They had heard that the British were coming. Parkerâs troops had never faced soldiers. Soon they
Quotation marks would only have to be used on thoughts if the<br />thoughts were someone else's. If the thoughts came from a book, computer source, or some other source, then quotation marks should be used. However, the writer of the essay does not have to quote his or her <i>own</i> thoughts.
You should never change the words in a quotation without indicating the changes. The quotation marks you use around words indicate to readers that everything within those quotations marks appears in your writing.or example, in the example above, I most likely would. need to use brackets to clarify the antecedent of he if I used the word weasel just a sentence or two before the sentence in which I use the quotation.