English 1 (Accelerated)
Chapter 22
Italics and Quotation Marks
Rules:
- 22a. Use underlining (italics) for titles of books, plays, movies, periodicals, works of art, long musical compositions, ships, and so on,
- 22b. Use underlining (italics) for words, letters, and figures referred to as such and for foreign words.
- 22c. Use quotation marks to enclose a direct quotation – a person’s exact words.
- 22d. A direct quotation begins with a capital letter.
- 22e. When a quoted sentence Is divided Into two parts by an interrupting expression such as he said or Mother asked, the second part begins with a small letter.
- 22f. A direct quotation is set off from the rest of the sentence by commas or by a question mark or exclamation point.
- 22g. Other marks of punctuation when used with quotation marks are placed according to the following rules:
- Commas and periods are always placed Inside closing quotation marks.
- Colons and semicolons are always placed outside closing quotation marks.
- Question marks and exclamation points are placed Inside the closing quotation marks If the quotation is a question or an exclamation; otherwise, they are placed outside.
- 22h. When you write dialogue (two or more persons having a conversation), begin a new paragraph every time the speaker changes.
- 22i. When a quoted passage consists of more than one paragraph, put quotation marks at the beginning of each paragraph and at the end of the entire passage. Do not put quotation marks after any paragraph but the last.
- 22j. Use single quotation marks to enclose a quotation within a quotation.
- 22k. Use quotation marks to enclose titles of articles, short stories, poems, songs, chapters, and other parts of books or periodicals.
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