Quotation Marks sheet 2

1. Use quotation marks at the beginning and at the end of a direct quotation.

“How can one person,” wondered Al, “be so messy?”

2. Place question marks and exclamation points inside quotation marks if they belong to the quotation itself, but place them outside if they do not belong to the quotation.

Did I hear you say, “I’m too tired to play”?

Brad asked, “Has everyone left already?”

Special rules for titles:

3. Use quotation marks to enclose chapter titles; titles of magazine articles, short stories, essays, and single poems; titles of television and radio programs; and titles of songs or short pieces of music.

Underline titles of whole books, plays, magazines, newspapers, etc. In print these titles are set in italics.

I enjoyed the first chapter of The Hobbit, entitled “An Unexpected Visitor.”

Directions: Rewrite the following sentences. Add quotation marks. Circle what you add.

1. Miss Marple said I think we have a clue

2. The thief pleaded Please let me have another chance

3. I hope I make the chorus said Abigail

4. This is terrible exclaimed Jenny We’ll never make it home in time

5. Let’s play tennis offered Chuck and then we’ll take a swim

6. Gerry said I am turning over a new leaf from now on I will be in bed by ten o’clock every night

7. I’ll believe it when I see it replied her sister you won’t last one week

8. Dan shouted the coach says to come in right now

9. Does the menu say no substitutions asked Rose

10. Al didn’t like the movie Return of the Jedi as much as I did

11. When I read the book Animal Farm, I didn’t understand all of it

12. We read The Highwayman and The Bells in our poetry book

13. Goin’ Down Geneva is a song on Van Morrison’s CD, Back on top

14. The editorial entitled Voting Is Everyone’s Responsibility appeared in The Peninsula Daily News

15. The story The Monkey’s Paw is in our literature books