What's in a Title | All About Quotation Marks | An Italics Hodge Podge | Where Does it Go? |
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To Kill a Mockingbird: italicized
Have you read To Kill a Mockingbird?
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"Tom... pie"
Insert quotation marks:
Tom said, I like pie. |
Underlining
Italics and ------ work the same way
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Inside the quotation marks
Comma
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Little Lion Man: quotation marks
Have you heard the song Little Lion Man by Munford and Sons?
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"I
"I... movies."
Insert quotation marks:
I love to play guitar and sing. I also like to watch movies. |
Mississippi, s, i
The word Mississippi has four s's and four it's.
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Outside the quotation marks
Colon
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Mona Lisa: Italics
Leonardo DaVinci is known well for his masterpiece, Mona Lisa.
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"Did......' there's..... house'?"
Insert quotation marks:
Did you hear Joe say, there's a party at my house? |
Á la carte
They serve a lot of soups á la carte.
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Inside the quotation marks
Period
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Dragon Tales: Italics
To Fly With Dragons: quotation marks
My favorite episode of Dragon Tales is To Fly With Dragons.
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that
What word is an immediate hint that a quote is an indirect quote
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Twenty
She received not five, not ten, but twenty votes for class president.
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Outside the quotation marks
Semicolon
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USS Arizona: italicized
The USS Arizona sunk during Pearl Harbor.
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A person's exact words or something said in the present.
Define Direct Quotation (two parts)
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68
He scored a 68 on his test.
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inside the quotation marks if the quotation is a question
Question Mark
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