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.
Set off long quotation of poetry by indenting
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."