Quotation marks

1)Use quotation marks before and after a direct

quotation.
2)Commas should separate the quotation from the rest
of the sentence.
3)All end marks should be placed inside the quotation
marks except for question marks and exclamation
points that refer to the entire sentence.
Example
1)Before the assembly began, Calla asked, Where
do you want to sit?
2)Lets sit in the front row, I replied, near the
speaker.
3)Do you think Craig was serious when he said,
Id never sit there?
Quotation marks are also used for the title of a short story,
an essay, a poem, a song, a magazine or newspaper
article, or a book chapter. Use italics (underlining) for the
title of a book, a play, a film, a television series, a
magazine, or a newspaper.

Example
The speaker read the short story Traveling, which had
first appeared in The New Yorker magazine.
Exercise
Insert quotation marks, or underline the titles in the
following sentences.
1)I am writing a book report on Mansfield Park.
2)We sang Happy Birthday when Nicole arrived at the
surprise party.
3)The Dawn of the Industrial Age is the most
interesting chapter in our history book.
4)My parents read either Newsweek or Time every
Sunday morning.
5)One article, How to Increase Your Vocabulary,
caught my eye.
6)Did you read Huckleberry Finn? Sven asked.
7)Yes, Laurie replied, I liked it better than Tom Sawyer.
8)I found some of the words hard to read, Sven said.

9)There is a chapter in our literature book about

understanding dialects. Maybe it will help, Laurie
told him.
Sven said, I saw a play with dialects called My
Fair Lady

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