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Which sentence correctly uses a quotation from "A Modest Proposal"?

Swift explains that some mothers are “forced to employ all their time in stroling to beg sustenance for their helpless infants.”
Some mothers are forced to employ all their time in stroling to beg sustenance for their helpless infants.
“Swift writes that some mothers are forced to employ all their time in stroling to beg sustenance for their helpless infants.”
Swift explains that many mothers have to beg in order to provide food for their children.

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
Sentence 1 is correct.

Briefly: it encloses only the exact words taken from Swift in quotation marks and attributes them to him. Sentences 2 and 4 are paraphrases (no quotation marks needed), and sentence 3 wrongly puts a paraphrase in quotation marks.