Question

The excerpt above is from page 21 of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling. Which passage represents a correctly formatted quotation from the excerpt above?

Answer 1

The right answer for the question that is being asked and shown above is that: " Harry Potter, an infant, lies outside the house of his aunt and uncle and he is  unaware that his life has changed" The passage that represents a correctly formatted quotation from the excerpt above is that Harry Potter, an infant, lies outside the house of his aunt and uncle and he is  unaware that his life has changed.

Answer 2

The question above is incomplete, the options attached to the question are listed below:

A. Harry Potter lies outside his aunt and uncle's house, unaware that his life has changed forever (Rowling 21).

B. While Potter lies outside his aunt and uncle's house, he "[sleeps] on, not knowing he [is] special" and praised all over the country (Rowling 21).

C. A wind sweeps gently over the trimmed hedges of Privet Drive, which lies quiet and neat under the dark sky, not a place where one would expect anything out of the ordinary to occur (Rowling 21).

D. The Harry Potter books are so entertaining because they paint a picture of a world in which we all want to live. We all long to find that extraordinary secret that will reveal our own special quality. Like little infant Potter waiting outside his aunt and uncle's house (Rowling 21), it's just a matter of time until we find that we are, after all, special.

ANSWER

The correct answer is A.

A quotation refers to a group of words that are taken from a book or a speech by another person that is different from the original author. When quotation is used in writing, it must be properly formatted to show that, it was lifted from another source. To do this, quotation marks is always used to enclosed the quoted words.