Answer: The right answer is the D) Brown stated that breakfast is "the most important meal of the day" (Brown 107).
Explanation: Just to elaborate a little on the answer, it can be added that the other options are incorrect. Option A features an unnecessary colon and no reference to the page where the original quote can be found. Likewise, option B quotes the statement correctly, but it does not provide the source information. Option C includes the source information twice, and the first reference to the page number appears in the text, not in the parantheses, and that's incorrect. In MLA (Modern Language Association of America) style, when an author is referring to the work of other in his or her text, he or she needs to use the parenthetical citation. In its simplest form, this citation must include the author's last name and the page(s) from which the quotation has been taken in a parentheses located at the end of the sentence. Although the author's last name can appear either in the sentence or in the parentheses, as in option C, the page number(s) should always appear in the parentheses.
