Quotation Marks (Part 2)

Study the following sentences:

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• “I could have prevented the injury,” she keeps telling herself.
• An Italian proverb notes, “when the ship has sunk, everyone knows how they could have saved it.”

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Quotation marks are used to set off the exact words of a speaker or writer.

• “I feel as though I’ve been here before,” Sheila murmured to her husband.
• The biology professor said, “Ants are a lot like human beings.”
• “What a beautiful diamond necklace Judy is wearing!” I exclaimed.

Important Hints:

1. Every quotation begins with a capital letter.

2. A comma sets off the quoted part from the rest of the sentence.

3. Other punctuation marks such as commas, periods, question marks, and exclamation marks always go inside quotation marks.