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11/7/2006

Worksheet 3 c: 3 - Using Quotation Marks

Worksheet 3 c: 3 - Using Quotation Marks

Quotation marks are used in the following ways:

1. Quotation Marks are used to denote titles as follows:

“Jingle Bells” (song)

“The Hound of the Baskervilles” (short story)

“The Gettysburg Address” (speeches)

“Computers that Learn” (magazine articles, articles in an encyclopedia, or on-line source)

“The World in the Nineteen-Twenties” (book chapters)

“Trip to Paris” (television episodes)

“Georgy” (one act plays)

2. They are used to indicate a word being discussed

At the meeting, we were discussing the use of the word “sprawl” as it applied to Madison.

3. They are used to indicate an unfamiliar word.

The teens were saying the car was “rad”.

4. To point out words used in an unusual way.

You could sense the “ice” in his personality.

(Italics can be used instead of quotation marks for 2, 3 and 4)

4. Always place commas and periods inside quotation marks when they occur after the quote starts.

5. Put question marks and exclamation points inside the quotes if they pertain to the quote and outside if they pertain to the longer sentence.

6. Always put colons and semi-colons outside the quotation marks.

7. Put quotation marks around any words that are directly said by a person or in another piece of writing.

8. For a quote longer than 4 lines, you can indent the entire piece of writing ten spaces and leave off the quotation marks.

9. For a quote of more than one paragraph, you put quotes at the beginning of each paragraph and at the end of the last paragraph.

10. For a quote within a quote, use a single quote mark ‘ around the inside quote.