Quotation Marks and Italics
v Use quotation marks before and after direct quotations, or a person’s exact words.
Ø “I want to collect recipes,” said Samantha.
v Use quotation marks with both parts of a divided quotation.
Ø “Looking through my mother’s recipes,” she said, “I can only find a few that I like.”
v Place periods inside the quotation marks.
Ø “My grandmother,” said Samantha, “really loved using fresh ingredients.”
Ø “I guess it helped that she had a farm.”
v Use commas to separate a phrase such as she said from the quotation. Commas are placed inside the quotation marks.
Ø “Looking through my grandmother’s recipes,” she said, “I found many more.”
v Question marks and exclamation points are place inside the quotation marks when they are a part of the quotation. When question marks and exclamation points are a part of the entire sentence, they are not placed inside the quotation marks.
Ø “Where will I find one using fresh lemons?” asked Laura.
Ø “What a wonderful recipe for cream cheese icing. This is delicious!” exclaimed Peggy.
Ø Should Laura and Peggy be skeptical where Grandmother wrote “Use six eggs instead of four”?
v Use quotation marks for the title of a short story, book chapter, magazine article, essay, song, newspaper article, or short poem.
Ø “The Tell-Tale Heart”
Ø “The Ransom of Red Chief”
Ø “Mother to Son”
Ø “The First Noel”
Ø “Using Punctuation Correctly”
Ø “Fly Me to the Moon”
v Use italics (underlining) for the title and subtitle of a play, film, television series, long poem, book, newspaper, long musical compositions and recordings, magazine, or work of art. When using a typewriter or handwriting a title/subtitle, underlining is used. Italics are a print used in publication and in word processing programs.
Ø Gilmore Girls
Ø The Wizard of Oz
Ø The Wiz
Ø The Mona Lisa
Ø Martha Stewart Living
Ø Illiad
Ø Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
v Use italics (underlining) for the names of trains, ships, aircraft, and spacecraft.
Ø Titanic
v Use italics (underlining) for words, letter, and numerals that are being referenced.
Ø Don’t forget to drop the silent –e when adding –ing to verbs like bake, make, take, place, share, and give.
