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by giantDinosaur 1953 days ago
Often molding the quote to the 'grammatical context' simply means you've added too much anyway. For example, saying 'he says he's going to <quote>' which requires modification of the quote, vs. dropping it entirely: 'he says <quote>'.
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"molding the quote to the 'grammatical context'"

That's called "paraphrasing", and is distinct from quoting, because a quote is what was actually said.