When quoting an author you are not supposed to change their grammar mistakes...why?

I you make any changes to a quotation you are no longer quoting; you are paraphrasing. Part of the purpose in quoting is to show exactly what is said. To change it, takes away the essence of the quoter. Sometimes the grammar mistake is the soul of the quote.
 
Well nothing would really happen, it just wouldn't technically be correctly quoted. The reason you aren't supposed to change things in the quote, even grammar mistakes, is because that changes what the quote originally was, and therefore you are, in a way, putting it into your own words, but you are putting quotes around it. But you also can't just leave the quotes out because that is plagiarism.
 
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