Which passage illustrates an in-text citation? in his inspiring inaugural address, john f. kennedy said, “[a]sk not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.” one of the most famous lines from a speech has to be, “[a]sk not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.” instead of wondering what america is doing for us, we should be trying to find ways to improve the country ourselves. somebody once said that it is better to ask what you can do for your country rather than to ask what your country can do for you.

The passage that illustrates an in-text citation is the first one: In his inspiring inaugural address, John F. Kennedy said, “[A]sk not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country”.

This is the correct passage because it is the only one that includes the name of the source, that is the name of the person that pronounced those words (John F. Kennedy). Moreover, quotation marks have been used to indicate that this is a direct quotation, a quotation that reproduces the exact words that an author or speaker has used in his text or speech. Furthermore, a reporting verb ("said") has been used in this passage to indicate the beginning of a direct quotation.  

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