Grammarnotes on Your Own Activities

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GrammarNotes on your own activities

Lesson 22 : Using Quotation Marks

Direct Quotations

Add quotation marks where they are needed in the following sentences.

1. Jan said, I’ll be glad to tell you about Juneteenth.

2. It marks the day in 1865, she continued, when the slaves in Texas were made free people.

3. Lloyd asked, What day is Juneteenth celebrated?

4. It’s celebrated every year on the nineteenth of June, Jan replied.

5. Did Lloyd say, I’m going to read more about this holiday?

Dialogue, quoted passages, and quotations within quotations

Correct the following passage by adding quotation marks and single quotation marks where needed. Also tell where each new paragraph should begin.

What is a Renaissance festival? Leon asked. It’s a fair that celebrates Europe’s Renaissance,
Karli said. You’ll see people dressed up as kings, queens, peasants, and knights. Sounds like fun!
Leon exclaimed. It is, and Mr. Swanson did say, The Renaissance Festival is a great place to
learn some history.

Quotation marks for titles

Correct each sentence by adding quotation marks where needed.

1. My little brother wrote a song; he calls it Springtime in the Mountains.

2. Walt Whitman’s poem When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d is a tribute to Abraham Lincoln.

3. Have you read the story All Summer in a Day?

4. Mr. Torres has assigned the next chapter, The Gilded Age, for Monday.

Quotation marks for special types of language

Correct each sentence by adding quotation marks where needed.

1. The amount of data that can be sent through a computer network is the bandwidth.

2. Harriet calls everybody dude, even girls.

3. The word famished means very hungry.

4. When my niece is relaxing, or chilling out, she says she is chillaxing.