Collocation Dictionary
Common collocations with quotation in American Collocation
quotation
noun
countable
What are red words?
Around 90% of spoken and written English relies on just 7,500 common words.
These words are highlighted in red and are ranked using a star system.
- One-star words are commonly used
- Two-star words are even more common
- Three-star words are the most frequently used
What are red words?
Around 90% of spoken and written English relies on just 7,500 common words.These words are highlighted in red and are ranked using a star system.
- One-star words are commonly used
- Two-star words are even more common
- Three-star words are the most frequently used
using exactly the same words
Verbatim quotations should be in inverted commas, and directly acknowledged.
short
Short quotations should as far as possible be included in the text and enclosed in single quotation marks.
long
There were too many lengthy quotations.
well-known
The French satirist Voltaire’s famous quotation – “Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty” – was widely propagated.
give a quotation
In his book on Russia, he cites a quotation from The Revolution Betrayed.
get a quotation from somewhere
The following quotation is taken from the 1995 report.
say who first said something
Make sure you attribute quotations, ideas and theories to the people who came up with them.
a quotation comes from something
The quotation comes from Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
a quotation shows or suggests something
As this quotation suggests, the UK tends to do relatively well in international comparisons of student retention.