Punctuation Quotes In Middle Of Sentence
If you start by telling who said it use a comma and then the first quotation mark.
Punctuation quotes in middle of sentence. Direct questions within a sentence. Examples include the comma semicolon colon dash hyphen apostrophe and quotation marks. Proper punctuation quotes. The single quotation marks in the above sentence are intended to send a message to the reader that friend is being used in a special way.
Quotation marks are punctuation marks used in pairs to set off speech a quotation a phrase or a word. When inserted in the middle of a person s actual name a nickname should appear in quotation marks. In this case sarcastically. Remembering jane straus.
When a direct question occurs within a larger sentence it takes a question mark. Quotations placed in the middle of a sentence. Use of the question mark with other punctuation including quotation marks is explained in the section on. Note that in the examples below the question mark supplants the comma that would syntactically belong in its place.
The first sentence contains a direct quote a quote in which you report the exact words john used the second sentence contains an indirect quote which is a paraphrased version of what john said quotation marks are used only with direct quotes. Time for some more dumb rules for interrupted quotations. In a sentence with an interrupted quotation the comma is inside the quotation marks for the first half of a quotation. Avoid this invalid usage.
4 mid sentence punctuation marks just as terminal punctuation comes at the end of a sentence mid sentence punctuation is used somewhere in the middle. In each of these sample sentences the speaker tag interrupts the quotation. When you re writing something that is a direct quote meaning that it is the exact words that someone spoke you need to use double quotation marks. When a quotation is included within a larger sentence do not use ellipsis points at the beginning or end of the quoted material even if the beginning or end of the original sentence has been omitted.
Using them properly can be a little tricky so remember these rules. Quoting the words of others.