The phrase "a quotation describing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific quotation that provides a description or explanation of a subject or concept.
Example: "In her essay, she included a quotation describing the beauty of nature that resonated with her readers."
Alternatives: "a quote illustrating" or "a citation detailing".
He provided a quotation describing the struggle for existence, citing a Spanish translation of this work: "The rat goes out for its food, and is clever in getting it, for it eats all animals inferior to it in strength," and in turn, it "has to avoid snakes and birds and serpents of prey, who look for it in order to devour it" and are stronger than the rat.
A quotation describing what someone said is usually capitalised as it is apart from the sentence.
Inspired by Beauchamp & Childress, this quotation describes a situation where the principle of respect for autonomy does not apply because of the physical and psychological condition of the patient.
The 1995 quotation describes how attitudes might change in response to disasters after they have actually occurred.
The quotation describes Philip seeking penitence from Babylas for the sin of murdering his predecessor.
CSWs trained to be peer educators commented that they did not receive follow-up training and had trouble remembering what they learned during the peer education training, as the following quotation describes: Refresher courses should be improved at least they should be done within a short duration not after a long time when we have forgotten what we once trained.
He tells the story vividly, with fascinating contemporary quotations describing the impact of each new group of immigrants, from Jewish moneylenders to Huguenot weavers, from Irish labourers to Indian shopkeepers - until it seems hard to imagine Britain without these stimuli.
Correction: September 27 , 2002 Friday An article yesterday about a judge's ruling that 3 of 20 insurers of the World Trade Center owed payments to the leaseholder, Larry A. Silverstein, for just a single terrorist attack, rather than two, misattributed a quotation that described the ruling as a setback for him.
An article yesterday about a judge's ruling that 3 of 20 insurers of the World Trade Center owed payments to the leaseholder, Larry A. Silverstein, for just a single terrorist attack, rather than two, misattributed a quotation that described the ruling as a setback for him.
When consecutive quotations describe the same music as "not singable" and so singable that "we didn't need anything else," one can assume that appeals to subjectivity (or practicality) will not themselves resolve the question of whether instruments should join voices in performance of late-medieval music ["Machaut at 700 (Give or Take): Elusive Intricacy," March 12].
The second half of the worksheets break this writing down into a three-step process: first, summarizing or describing a quotation, second, interpreting that quotation ("close reading"), and third, transforming one of those interpretations into an informative, idea-filled sentence that also relates the necessary plot information to the reader.
