What is the correct way to use punctuation with quotation marks?

Use quotation marks to enclose direct quotation

• "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Use single quotation marks to enclose a quotation with a quotation

• According to Paul Eliott, Eskimo hunters "chant an anciet magic sone to the seal they are after: 'Beast fo the sea! Come and place yourself before me in the earyl morning.

Use quotation marks around the titles of short works: newspaper and magazine articles, poems, stories, songs, episodes of televison, etc...

• Kathernie Mansfield's "The Garden Party" provoked a lively discusion in our short-story class last night.

Quotation marks can be used to set off words used a words.

• The words "accept" and "except" are frequently confused.

== If the quotation is interrupted and then continues in your sentence, do not capitalize the second part of the quotation.

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• "He likes to talk about football," she said, "especially when the Super Bowl is coming up."

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