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== Use quotation marks to enclose direct quotation == | == Use quotation marks to enclose direct quotation == | ||
*"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. | *"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. | ||
'''Remember:''' Do not use quotation marks around indirect quotations. An indirect quotation reports someone's ideas without using that person's exact words. | |||
== In dialogue, begin a new parapraph to mark a change in speaker. == | |||
*"Mom, his name is Willie, not William. A thousand times I've told you, it's Willie." "Willie is a derivative of William, Lester. Surely his birth certificate doesn't have Willie on it, and I like calling people by their proper names." "Yes, it does, ma'ma. My mother named me Willie K Mason." -Gloria Naylor | |||
'''Remember''' If a single speaker utters more than one paragraph, introduce each paragraph with quotation marks, but do not use closing quotation marks until the end of the speech | |||
For more examples.http://www.owl.english.purdue.edu/ | |||
== Set off long quotation of poetry by indenting== | == Set off long quotation of poetry by indenting== | ||
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== Use quotation marks around the titles of short works: newspaper and magazine articles, poems, stories, songs, episodes of televison, etc...== | == 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. | *Kathernie Mansfield's "The Garden Party" provoked a lively discusion in our short-story class last night. | ||
'''Remember:''' Titles of books, plays, Web sites, and films and names of magazines and newspaper are put in italics or underlined | |||
== Quotation marks can be used to set off words used a words.== | == Quotation marks can be used to set off words used a words.== | ||
*The words "accept" and "except" are frequently confused. | *The words "accept" and "except" are frequently confused. | ||