QUOTATION MARKS,COMMAS, AND MORE

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QUOTATION MARKS,COMMAS, AND MORE

• Commas and periods always fall inside the
  quotation marks.

Example Mary enjoyed Fitzgeralds story The
Freshest Boy, so she looked forward to reading
his novels.
Example Rush Limbaugh coined the unflattering
term femi-Nazi.
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QUOTATION MARKS,COMMAS, AND MORE

• Colons and semi-colons always fall outside the
  quotation marks.

Example We have to know the other cultures idea
of how close is too close no one wants to
offend.
Example Computers offer businesses
opportunities that never existed before some
workers disagree.
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QUOTATION MARKS,COMMAS, AND MORE

• Question marks, exclamation points and dashes
  fall inside the quotation marks if part of the
  quotation and outside if not.

Example Ive won the lottery! Eric yelled in
the middle of lunch.
Example Have you ever really read T.S. Eliots
poem The Waste Land?
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QUOTATION MARKS,COMMAS, AND MORE

• Use single quotation marks when you are quoting
  quoted words within a quotation or are using a
  title within a quotation that would usually take
  quotation marks.

Example What do you mean, I dont love you
anymore? James asked Hannah.
Example I plan to sing Its the End of the
World as We Know It by REM, announced the
ambitious contestant.