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Quotation Marks Rules
|How to Use |Explanation |Example |
|Quote a phrase |Use quotation marks to show the reader the exact phrase|The city's mayor explained that the recent tornado |
| |being borrowed word-for-word from a source. |"leveled entire neighborhoods but miraculously took no |
| | |lives in its wake." |
|Direct quote at the end of |When a direct quote follows a statement and ends a |Robert exclaimed, “I shouldn’t be punished when I did |
|a sentence |sentence, it should be preceded by a comma and followed|nothing wrong!” |
| |by a period, exclamation mark, or question mark. | |
|Direct quote at the |If a direct quote starts a sentence or is followed by a|“Robert didn’t do anything wrong,” his brother calmly |
|beginning of a sentence |phrase, a comma should be placed at the end, before the|explained to their parents. |
| |closing quotation mark. | |
|Partial quote in context |When part of a quote is woven into a sentence as an |The school’s principal states that “fights have decreased|
| |ordinary phrase, it does not need to be separated with |since the new year.” |
| |additional punctuation. | |
|Full quote in context |When a full quote is used within a sentence, it must be|When asked about the robberies, the police chief stated, |
| |introduced and is usually preceded or followed by a |“We have many criminals that we feel are involved.” |
| |comma. | |
|Setting off dialog |Dialog in a narrative is identified and set apart by |Sally asked her mother, "Can I go to the movies with my |
| |being inserted between a set of quotation marks. |friends this weekend?" Her mother answered, "Only if you |
| | |finish your chores." |
|Quote song titles |Use quotation marks, rather than italics or |“What Makes You Beautiful” by One Direction |
| |underlining, to identify the titles of songs. | |
|Quote short stories |Use quotation marks, rather than italics or |“Little Red Hen” by Edgar Allan Poe |
| |underlining, to identify the titles of short stories. | |
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