Quotation Marks (Part 1)

Study the following sentences:

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• You shouldn’t miss tonight’s “Medics”
• In “It Has to Be You,” baseball star Rob Gold can’t hit a ball anymore.
• “You’d Better Not Look” will keep you in the dark until the very end.

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1. Quotation marks are used to set off titles of short works such as articles in books, or magazines; chapters in a book; short stories; poems; songs; and episodes of TV serials.

**Remember that all these titles are capitalized.

-Yesterday, we read “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” in our poetry class.

-“The Lottery” is a classic short story by Shirley Jackson.

2. Quotation marks are also used to set off technical terms or words used in a special sense.

-The “platoon system” changed the game of football.

-His “castle” was in reality a cozy little mouse trap.