If you believe a direct quotation contains a typographical, orthographical, or grammatical error, the polite thing to do is to quote it as it stands with the error labelled by a “[sic]” (written in square brackets, as shown).
For example, if I felt “Imagine it was you. Why might you do it?” should be “Imagine it were you. Why might you do it?”, I would write along the lines of:
Tiiba, it’s pretty bad form to present an altered version of someone else’s words as a direct quote.
The horror.
If you believe a direct quotation contains a typographical, orthographical, or grammatical error, the polite thing to do is to quote it as it stands with the error labelled by a “[sic]” (written in square brackets, as shown).
For example, if I felt “Imagine it was you. Why might you do it?” should be “Imagine it were you. Why might you do it?”, I would write along the lines of: