Quotation Marks with Direct Quotations!!!

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Quotation Marks with Direct Quotations!!!
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Direct Quotation

• Represents a persons exact speech or thoughts
  and is enclosed in quotation marks.
• EXAMPLES
• Doh! Homer Simpson
• Fly like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
  Muhammad Ali
• The students declared, Man, I wish Ms. Ruiz
  would stop assigning homework! (Introductory
  Expression)
• Keep wishing, replied Ms. Ruiz. (Concluding
  expression)
• Summer reading, stated Ms. Ruiz, is important
  to your overall grade. (Interrupting expression)

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Indirect Quotations

• Report only the general meaning of what a person
  said or thought and does not require quotation
  marks. (In papers, this does not mean you do not
  cite it!)
• EXAMPLES
• Ms. Ruiz, a 9th and 10th grade English teacher at
  Doral Academy, said that she would give her top
  students recognition every other week for their
  hard work.

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HOMEWORK

• Imagine you are a journalist for the Doral
  Academy Times. Create a piece for your newspaper
  based on the EXCLUSIVE interview you did with
  your partner in class. Include at least three
  direct quotations (introductory, concluding, and
  interrupting expression) and at least two
  indirect quotations.