Talking About Words : Quotations

quatation  Quotation marks are punctuation marks used in pairs in various writing systems to identify direct speech, a quotation, or a phrase Quotations and Punctuation Quotation marks should always face the quoted material One set of quotation marks will show the beginning of the quote and the

Short quotations · Place a parenthetical citation either immediately after the quotation or at the end of the sentence · For a narrative Direct Quotations · Quotation marks always come in pairs · Capitalize the first letter of a direct quote when the quoted material is a complete sentence · Do

Guillemets · « » are used in Russian, French, German, Italian, and numerous other languages In Russian, If you are quoting a passage that contains a quotation, then you use single quotation marks for the internal quotation Quite rarely, you quote a passage that