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Unit 15:＜Quoting＞
Kevin Chen
• Use quotation marks suitably in a
dialogue so that the reader will
not become lost. Place quotation
marks with commas in where the
break would come naturally in
speech—that is, where the
speaker would pause for
emphasis, or take a breath.
1. Commas before and after
direct quotations
• Before quoting a whole
statement, put a comma after
introductory word said, stated,
asked, and so on.
• Examples:
• He said, “This is the road to San
Francisco.”
• She asked, “Will this book explain
how to make simple furniture?”
2. Put commas after quotations
when the quotations come at
the beginning of sentences.
• Be sure to make commas
belong inside quotation marks.
• Examples:
• “After dinner, let’s play Wii,” he
suggested.
• “Don’t leave any questions blank,”
the teacher said.
3. Short quoted phrases often
fit smoothly into the sentence
and should not be set off by
commas.
• Examples:
• Michael called his niece a
“universal genius.”
• Shakespeare called music the
“food of love.”
4. Quotation marks should be
always placed before colons
and semicolons
• Examples:
• Read James Joyce’s short story
“Araby”; learn what it’s like to be
disappointed in love.
• Laura won an unexpected prize for
her science-fair project, “Lumitox
and the Environment”: an allexpense-paid trip to Stockholm to
attend the Nobel Prize ceremonies.
5. Quotation marks before or after
question marks and exclamation
points, depending upon the
context of the sentence
• Examples:
• John asked, “Can you meet me at
seven o’clock?”
• Did John say, “Meet me at seven
o’clock”?
6. Use quotation marks to
enclose the actual words of a
speaker
• “Ask not what your country can
do for you; ask what you can do
for your country.”
7. Use quotation marks to
identify symbols, letters, and
words used
• He had too many “buts” in this
paragraph, and his “$” sign is a
simple “s.”
(＊ In computer type, a word used
as such is usually set in italics:
too many buts.)
8. Use quotation marks to
enclose the titles of short stories,
short poems, paintings, songs,
magazine articles, essays, and
chapters of books, BUT NOT
book titles.
• William Butler Yeats’s “Leda and the
Swan” and Correggio’s painting
“Leda” dramatize an erotic event
that ultimately led to the Trojan war.
(＊ In type the titles of works of art are
often set in italics: Correggio’s
painting Leda.)
• ~~BYE~~