Quotes Within Quotes Punctuation

Which punctuation mark do i use when she quotes herself within the single quotes.

Quotes within quotes punctuation. When a run in quotation contains quotation marks within the quoted material itself use single quotation marks in their place. The main quote would use single quotation marks and the quote within the quote would use double quotation marks. Quotes within quotes and punctuation. The example above uses american style quotation marks.

When you need to present a quotation within a. The main quote is enclosed in double quotation marks. So for dialogue the spoken text opens and closes with double quotation marks. Discussion in word mechanics started by charliever mar 6 2009.

When the material being quoted contains a quotation within a quotation i e something in single quotation marks use double quotation marks. When you have a quotation that is inside of another quotation it is called a nested quotation nested quotes follow a hierarchical structure of alternating between double quotation marks and single quotation marks. Quotes within quotes follow the same rules for regular quotes only they require a single quotation mark at both the beginning and the end. The quote within the quote do unto others as you would have them do unto you is enclosed in single quotation marks the british convention is the opposite.

One level of nesting the most common reason for nesting punctuation is shown in section 1 3 7 of the mla handbook p. A simple principle applies for what seems like a thorny issue. What if you have three or more quotes within quotes. Nest punctuation that appears within punctuation by alternating punctuation marks to disambiguate in this case between double and single quotation marks.

Putting a quote within a quote. A character is speaking within double quotes and refers to a title in single quotes at the end of the sentence. We could put quotes inside quotes inside quotes inside quotes and the quotes would always be in alternating quotation marks doubles or singles. Does the punctuation go outside the single quotes like this.

September 12 2015 at 4 35 pm. In ame the outermost quotation mark is a double.