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| Use quotation marks to enclose a direct quotation |
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| "Has anyone here swam in the Great Salt Lake?" asked my cousin. |
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| A direct quotation generally begins with a capital letter |
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| Brandon shouted,"Laura! Get over here!" |
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| When the expression identifying the speaker interupts a quoted sentence, the second part of the quotation begins with a lowercase letter |
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| "Do you know," asked Angelo,"what the astronauts learned when they landed on the moon?" |
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| A direct quotation is set off from the rest of the sentence by a comma, question mark, or an exclamation mark, but not by a period |
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| "What an adventure!" exclaimed Iola. |
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| A period or comma is placed inside the closing quotation marks |
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| "Hank Aaron never hit sixty homers in one, though," Paula responded. |
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| A question mark or an exclamation point is placed inside the closing quotation marks when the quotation itself is a question or an exclamation otherwise, it is placed outside |
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| I'm so happy that Mom said "You're allowed to stay out until 10:00 P.M. in Friday night"! |
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