Practice 1
Direct
Quotations
A. Turn back to the model paragraph about drug use
among Olympic athletes on page 83 and answer the following questions.
1. How many
direct quotations are used in the model paragraph?
Three direct quotations
2. What
reporting verbs and phrases are used to introduce the direct quotations?
State, say, according to
B. Add punctuation to the following direct questions.
Change the capitalization if necessary. (The sentences in this practice are
about black holes, which are invisible masses in space larger than giant
stars.)
1. Dr. Yixuan
Ma, a well-known astrophysicist, who has been studying black holes, said, “It
is one of the most interesting phenomena we astrophysicists have ever studied.”
2. As she
explained, “In black holes, the laws of nature do not seem to apply.”
3. “A black
hole is a tiny point with the mass 25 times the mass of our sun,” explained
Ma’s associate, Chun-Yi Su. “Black holes are created by the death of a very
large star,” she stated.
4. “It is an
invisible vacuum cleaner in space,” she added, “with tremendous gravitational
pull.”
5. According
to Dr. Su, “If a person falls into a black hole, he will eventually be crushed
due to the tremendous gravitational forces.”
6. “Time will
slow down for him as he approaches the event horizon1,” she said,
“and when he reaches the event horizon, time will stand still for him.”
