An excerpt is a passage or segment taken from a text. The length of an excerpt may be a phrase, a sentence, a paragraph, or an entire chapter.
EXAMPLE: "Because we are different, we can have the fun of exchanging worlds, giving our love over and excitements to each other. You can learn music, I can learn flying."
- Richard Bach
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I read an excerpt from my novel today.
Yes. "To excerpt means to take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy".
The following is an excerpt from this year's annual report.
An excerpt from The Bible is often used in a morality lesson.
portion, piece, citation, fragment, part, note, selection, extract, passage, quote, section, choose, pick, select
The following paragraph will explain the preceding excerpt in detail.
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An excerpt is a selected portion from a longer work such as a film or book. So long as you bear in mind its correct meaning, you can use the word "excerpt" in much the same way that you use the word "sample."The trailer shows an excerpt from the film "Avatar."The author read an excerpt from his new novel. I used an excerpt of the speech in my term paper.
An excerpt from Mark Twain's book Life on the Mississippi, was used on the students' benchmark test.
I would like to cite your excerpt in my manuscript.
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An excerpt is a selected portion from a longer work such as a film or book. So long as you bear in mind its correct meaning, you can use the word "excerpt" in much the same way that you use the word "sample."The trailer shows an excerpt from the film "Avatar."The author read an excerpt from his new novel. I used an excerpt of the speech in my term paper.
The teacher asked us to read an excerpt from the novel before class.
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Yes.To excerpt means to take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy.
It's an incomplete sentence.
Which sentence in the excerpt supports the claim that the American colonies could thrive independently from Britain?
An excerpt from Mark Twain's book Life on the Mississippi, was used on the students' benchmark test.
The lecturer read out an excerpt from his recently published paper to his class to emphasize his point. Also excerpt is a short film or a piece of music from a text. I hope this helps :)
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An excerpt is a part of a piece of writing generally used to back up another piece of writing. If you are quoting a book for an essay, you are using an excerpt. A sentence might be, "The excerpt from 'Little House on the Prairie' was useful in my essay about pioneer life."
As in " a draft of this medoc will make you feel better" draft means a drink of, this is an excerpt of "the cast of Amontillado" by Edgar Allen Poe