Question

Read the following passage and answer the question that follows. Romans preferred communal meals. They ate with their right hands, and they did not use many utensils. The Romans almost always dined while reclining on special couches designed for the purpose. Which is an example of proper MLA citation of a summary of this passage

Answer 1

Romans were very particular in their dining habits. They reclined on "special couches" (Phin 429).

Step-by-step explanation:

To reference an author in-text using the Modern Language Association style, the parenthetical citation format is used. The author-page method which first mentions the author's first name, followed by the page number of the quotation where the quotation was gotten is used. If the reader wants to get further information, he gets redirected to the works cited page.

In the above citation, the authors last name and the page number indicate that the author made that statement on page 429 of the book. That is the correct MLA style.