Should direct quotes be capitalized

Answer 1

It depends actually, if quoting from the start of a sentence then yes; it read, "The little house was blue."

If starting in the middle of one, then no; however, "she claimed that blue made her sad."

For multiple parts add "..." in between the parts, so long as they don't flow. Ex:

The little house was blue. However, she claimed that blue made her sad. So after talking about it, we then painted the house red, she was happy.

The, "house was blue... blue made her sad... painted the house red... she was happy."

Its been awhile since English class, but that's how I remember it.

Answer 2

Usually, yes, but that depends on what the quote's about.

Example 1:

Dr. Greene of the Marine Institute at Vichy says, "Dolphins are just adorable."

That's capitalized. (I made up the person and the organization, by the way...)

Example 2:

He thought the Russian leaders were "corrupt, ignorant, hateful, and horrid."

The things in the quotation marks are the quoted stuff (duh), but the rest is not.

You don't capitalize it if it is not grammatically necessary. (The sentence is from my research paper on Theodore Roosevelt, by the way...)

Answer 3

That depends. If you begin the quoted material at the beginning of a sentence, then, yes. But, if you only want to quote part, you would use "....the small bit of words you want to quote." (with the period inside the quotes) If the quoted piece is inside your sentence, ""....the small bit of words you want to quote", with your own words following, then it is end quote with comma after.

Answer 4

Yes, direct quotes should be capitalized to indicate the beginning of the quoted text. This helps to clearly differentiate the quoted text from the rest of the writing.