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C5A9
Quotation Marks, Double
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Use quotation marks
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C5A9.1
To identify the title of a song, story, poem, article,
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or book chapter
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We have to memorize "Jabberwocky" by Thursday.
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C5A9.2
To set off unusual words/phrases or words/phrases
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used in unusual ways
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She had a "punny" sense of humor.
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He was a "dinner at eight" kind of guy.
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C5A9.3
To enclose direct quotes
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"I need help on this English paper," said Grover.
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"This beautiful day," said Mark, "is too good to waste
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indoors."
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Note:
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When a direct quote is longer than one paragraph,
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do the following: Place quotation marks at the beginning of
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each paragraph. Place them at the end of only the last
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paragraph. (The following example is quoted from
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The Story
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of English
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by McCrum, Cran, and MacNeil.)
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"Shakespeare is universal in his appeal and sympathy
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not least because he wrote in a language that has
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become global...
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"He was a country boy, born in Stratford, in the heart of
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Warwickshire, then a town of some 1500 inhabitants."
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For use of other punctuation marks with quotation marks,
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see
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Colon
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Comma with Quotation Marks
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Exclamation Point
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Period
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Question Mark
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Semicolon
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C5A9.4
Delete
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unnecessary quotation marks.
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