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To know the use of Quotation marks, we ought to know the meaning of quotation marks. Which leads us to
QUOTATION MARKS : are a set of punctuation marks [‘ ’] [“ ”] used to mark the beginning and the end of a sentence; a passage or highlight the topics or something that is being discussed.
When to use quotation marks.
Below is a list which gives the uses of quotation marks broken down into simple English for better understanding.
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Quotation marks are for when you want to use someone else’s words into your writing. For instance, you want to write something you heard from a friend.
Example: Tang said, “This book is worth the wait.”
Or in other situations, by adding suitable pronouns you can write the same thing without quotation marks.
Example : Tang said the book is worth the wait.
Now, breaking the above uses of quotation marks to how it is meant to be used, we can say that set of punctuations are used for direct quote, i.e., repeating what is being said word by word. The second sentence is an indirect quote, a *paraphrased version of what Tang said or what is said. Hence the absence of quotation marks.
Rules of Quotation Marks : QUOTATION MARKS AND CAPITALIZATION
If you are quoting a complete sentence, you have to capitalise the first letter. Even if the quote is in the middle of a sentence. Example : Seokie said,”Bom and Haru fought yesterday.” There are also a few exceptions. If you are quoting a part of a sentence or a phrase, it is not necessary to start a quote with a capital letter. Example : She calls them “loud, and messy,” as she speaks through the phone. If you are separating the quote in half to inject a *parenthetical, you should not capitalise the second part of the quote. Example : “You see, the problem is,” Tang interjected, “ Haru likes to annoy Bom.”
QUOTATION AND OTHER PUNCTUATION MARKS
Punctuation marks that introduce a quote are never placed within quotation marks. However, sentence ending punctuation is a whole different story. In the United States, the rule is that commas [ , ] and periods [ . ] always go inside the quotation mark whereas semicolons [ ; ] and colon [ : ] go outside of quotation marks.
Example : “That was some heavy downpour,” Ash said.
Seven, however, didn’t believe her. “I don’t think so, Ashley.”
Though Seven was aware of what he called, “ Ash’s weakness triangle” : she’s half deaf, always sleeps like a log and is prone to lying.
Ash saw an argument coming, so she muttered, “ But I saw it” ; this is going to be a long night and she did not want to start a fight.
Question marks and exclamation marks have their own rule
If they apply to a quoted material, they go inside but if they are not part of the sentence they go outside the quotation marks. Example : Grace asked, “Ben brought his umbrella?”
Why do you cry everytime Ben says “I’ve moved on” ?
QUOTES WITHIN QUOTES
Say you want to write a direct quote in which someone is praising their favorite chapter from a book series. Would you do it like this?
“ “Non-vaginal contractions is not it” is my favorite chapter in the whole series,” Faus chimes.
It doesn’t work, does it? You might even manage to confuse your word processing. But if you do it like this, everything will look much better; ten times better.
“‘Non-vaginal contractions is not it’ is my favorite chapter in the whole series,” Faus chimed.
*parenthetical - relating to parenthesis [ () ]
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