Chapter 28: Quotation Marks, Underlining, and Italics

Quotation Marks• Use quotation marks around direct quotes, the speaker’s exact words:• My father told me, “There are plenty of fish in the sea.”• “I’m never going there again,” said Becky.• “I will not,” said Mike, “attend another meeting.”

• Indirect Quotations—Don’t use quotation marks• My father told me that there are plenty of fish in the sea.• Becky said she wasn’t ever going there again.• Mike said he wouldn’t attend another meeting.

Chapter 28: Quotation Marks, Underlining, and Italics

• Use quotation marks around titles of short works, such as short stories, essays, newspaper or magazine articles, poems, and songs.

• In class today, we read Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken.”• “Itsy Bitsy Spider” is my little sister’s favorite song.• The newspaper article “Driving with a Cell Phone” made me aware of the dangers

of using a cell phone while driving.

Chapter 28: Quotation Marks, Underlining, and Italics

Underlining and Italics• The titles of books, plays, comic strips, newspapers, anthologies, music albums,

television programs, movies, and works of art are underlined or italicized. • In high school, we used to watch General Hospital.• I read the New York Times every morning.• When we were in Manhattan, we saw Tim Curry in the play Spamalot.

Chapter 28: Quotation Marks, Underlining, and Italics Exercises

• Add missing quotation marks and underlining when needed.

Q. My mother said, Don’t wear those socks!A. My mother said, “Don’t wear those socks!”

Q. My mother said to not wear those socks.A. No quotation marks needed.

Q. People interested in writing should read Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird; the book contains good ideas about writing.

A. People interested in writing should read Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird; the book contains good ideas about writing.

Chapter 28: Quotation Marks, Underlining, and Italics Exercises

• Add missing quotation marks and underlining when needed.

Q. My dad laughs so hard when he watches The Colbert Report; Dad says, this show is great”!

A. My dad laughs so hard when he watches The Colbert Report; Dad says, “This show is great!” (notice that quotes are outside the punctuation)

Q. Working in the nursing field can be exhausting but is very rewarding, Michelle told me yesterday.

A. “Working in the nursing field can be exhausting but is very rewarding,” Michelle told me yesterday.

Q. Mom, my son asked, can we watch the movie Twister?A. “Mom,” my son asked, “can we watch the movie Twister?”