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What is the correct way to use punctuation with quotation marks?: Difference between revisions
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== In dialogue, begin a new parapraph to mark a change in speaker. == | == 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 | *"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 | *'''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/ | For more examples.http://www.owl.english.purdue.edu/ | ||