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| Use quotation marks to enclose a direct quotation. |
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| "How was your vacation to the Great Salt Lake last week?" asked my cousin. |
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| A direct quotation is a person's exact words. |
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| Kaya asked Christopher, "What is your interpretation of the poem?" |
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| An indirect quotation is the rewording of a direct quotation. |
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| Kaya asked Christopher what his interpretation of the poem is. |
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| A direct quotation usually begins with a capital letter. |
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| Jeffrey shouted, "Doug! Over here!" |
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| When a expression that identifies the speaker interrupts the quotation, the second part begins with a lower case. |
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| "Do you know," asked Jeffrey, "when the Industrial Revolution took place?" |
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| A direct quotation is set off from the rest of the sentence by a comma, a question mark, or a exclamation point, but not a period. |
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| Robert said, " I had to research Nat turner for my history presentation." |
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| A period or comma is placed inside the closing quotation marks. |
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| "I heard that there is going to be an assembly after lunch," said Nicole. |
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| A question mark/exclamation point is placed inside the closing quotation marks when the quotation itself is a question or an exclamation. |
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| "Do you know what were doing for Geometry?" asked Josh. |
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| When you write dialogue, begin a new paragraph each time the speaker changes. |
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"How are you today?" asked Jenny.
"Today was okay," replied Jennifer. |
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| Use quotation marks to enclose titles and subtitles of short stories. |
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| "Casey at the Bat"/"Annabel Lee" |
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| Use single quotations to enclose a quotation within a quotation or a title/subtitle of a short work in a quotation. |
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| "Did you read 'Casey at the Bat'"? |
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| Use a hyphen with compound numbers from twenty-one to ninety-nine and with fractions used as modifiers. |
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-one-third cup of coffee creamer
-forty-eighth state |
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| When a fraction is a noun, do not use a hyphen. |
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| Use a hyphen with the prefixes all-, ex-, great-, and self-,and with suffixes -elect, and -free and with all prefixes before a proper noun or proper adjective. |
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ex-principal
self-confidence
great-grandmother |
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| Hyphenate a compound adjective when it precedes the noun it modifies. |
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a well-worn book
a small-town girl |
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