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No. Sentences in a block quotation cannot be reversed because, as the MLA Handbook notes, "[a] quotation should never be presented in a . . .
Published 21 October 2019
In the day-month-year style, do not use commas:
School started on 4 September 2018.
In the month-day-year style, use a comma to set . . .
Published 11 October 2019
A comma may generally be omitted from an introductory phrase of two or three words, but consider using a comma when you wish to emphasize the phrase. . . .
Publishers differ in their practice. In its publications, the MLA's preference is not to italicize commas that appear after italicized elements. However, we are open to . . .
Published 17 September 2019
MLA style generally hyphenates elements of a compound adjective and does not use a hyphen for a noun phrase.
a poet of the early nineteenth century
an . . .
The possessive of plural nouns ending in s is formed by adding an apostrophe after the s. For example, if you are referring . . .
Commas wield a lot of power. They can, for instance, determine whether a piece of descriptive language is essential, or not essential, to the meaning of a . . .
Styling a character's internal thoughts in italics or with quotation marks depends on whether you are quoting from a source that shows a character's thoughts, . . .
The semicolons should be placed outside the quotation marks:
Sweden took in more than 160,000 asylum seekers in 2015 (Henden, “Sweden Election Polls”; Hernroth-Rothstein; Milne; “ . . .
The MLA Handbook explains that if you are citing line numbers instead of page numbers in your parenthetical citation, you should "in your first citation, . . .
