Better Punctuation in 30 Minutes a Day by Ceil Cleveland

Author:Ceil Cleveland
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Red Wheel Weiser
Published: 2002-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

5.8 Punctuation With Quotation Marks

Periods and commas should go inside quotation marks.

Examples:

• In the newspaper, she was reading an article called “What Students Need to Know.”

• In “What Students Need to Know,” she read something she and her friends had just discussed.

Question marks and exclamation points should go inside quotation marks if they are a part of the quotation.

Examples:

• The article was titled “Do the Students Need to Know This?”

• “Stop!” I screamed. “A car is coming!”

• The children in the back seat whined, “Are we there yet?”

Colons, semicolons, and citation material go outside closing quotation marks.

Examples:

• Cynthia had one thought after seeing “The Stalker”: lock the house!

• In Le Morte d’Arthur, Malory tells us that objects used in the ceremony of excommunication are “bell, book, and candle”; these phrases are used to signify the power of the Church, or to ridicule its rituals.

Question marks and exclamation points should go outside if they are not part of the quotation.

Examples:

• I asked her, “Have you read the article, ‘What Students Need to Know’?”

• Did you read that short story, “Wait for Me a Little”?

• I’m just crazy about the Marx Brothers in “A Day at the Opera”!

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