Quotation Mark Rules | How To Use Quotation Marks | English Writing Essentials | ESL Grammar Lesson

[@SparkleEnglish]

Practice your English skills! Write a sentence using quotation marks. I'll start. "This lesson was really easy to understand," Jane declared.

[@mirzaghafori9534]

Can I use the same quotation marks for British English

[@vernoontriple2364]

How about this? Example: An adage, "The world is your oyster". Is this correct?

[@deathmeter7243]

@@vernoontriple2364 That’s incorrect. The correct way is the following sentence. An adage, “The world is your oyster.” You need to keep the period/fullstop inside the quotation marks.

[@bluestormcloud791]

What about the following; I spoke to George yesterday and he said "Sue asked me 'Have you ever heard someone ask "What time is it?"'?? Is that correct? Or how about; Did you happen to hear George tell me "Sue asked me 'Have you ever heard someone ask "What time is it?"'???

[@onic7878]

@@deathmeter7243 when to know you put a comma or a full stop after a sentence in a quotation

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your explanation Is easy to follow . Thank you

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[@susanmoreno2568]

I have been wanting to learn proper punctuation for a long time. Thank you!

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[@VilmaChoquegonza]

Great explanation! Thanks for your work.

[@drinklish2963]

Thank you as always for elucidating these rules. If I may, I'd like to ask a question related to direct quotation. If I'm not mistaken, a quotation that grammatically (and pragmatically) continues the flow of your original sentence does not require any punctuation. e.g., It is clear "that climate change will result in the sixth mass extinction," the scientist claimed. When the original sentence is not a complete one, and if the quotation is a stand-alone one, a comma, I believe, is needed. e.g., As Robert Frost wrote, "Writing free verse poetry is akin to playing tennis without a net." Lastly, if the original sentence is a complete sentence, a colon is needed before the quotation begins. e.g., The words of Oscar Wilde have always inspired me: "Everything in moderation, including moderation." I suppose the reason I'm confused is because I've seen commas after full sentences, like my last example. Is what I've written true? Are there any exceptions? Thank you for your time.

[@Nitephall]

Anything that is a direct quote requires quotation marks. If you're paraphrasing, then no.

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Thank you so much for your time. I appreciate this!.

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Very well Explained. Thank you for posting this

[@ronfong6646]

Excellent explanation of rules 4 & 5, which I had trouble with in the past. English is not an easy language with its syntax, grammar, punctuation, and spelling anomalies. Thank you for an excellent presentation on one aspect of English.

[@SparkleEnglish]

You are very welcome!

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Thank you Madam for your lesson on Quotation. "It is a very useful lesson."

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[@SparkleEnglish]

Thank you very much for your kind words! :)

[@kishorwaze5303]

Thank you very much for the detailed guidance on the use of quotations especially relating to quotation within quotation which we rarely come across.

[@godwithus1571]

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Thanks I having quotations and punctuation test in Monday I was have many doubts in quotation marks thanks for clearing my all doubts 😇😊

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[@brentbeacham9691]

You answered questions I’ve had for years. Thanks so much. Is there ever a time when you would say… “Does he have the test?”, to which she responded, “Everyone has it!”. Do you ever place a punctuation mark inside the quote for one tone, such as a question, and out side the “ because the entire sentence was in need of a period?

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[@SparkleEnglish]

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[@mrhalfstep]

For the record, English is my first and only language, but your videos help my ilk, as well as your intended subscribers, so thanks. I would like to ask about the second example in Practice 5. Would the following be correct if you had changed the wording to this sentence? Did you hear Cameron scream to his parents, "You're the worst parents ever!"?

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Thank you. Do you have a print out, that we can use as a reference, that goes along with the video?

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[@drinklish2963]

Thank you so much. A question if I may. When quoting a quote, i.e., when you use both double and single quotations, can you space them. In other words, is it correct to write like this? I spoke to George yesterday and he said, "Did you talk to Jane? She told me, 'I am quitting my job.' "

[@georgetitus-glover6228]

It appears correct!

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[@Crina-LudmilaCristeaAuthor]

Great lesson! 🤗 I've been reading a book which uses the American quotation rule, but for words such as 'colours', 'favourite' the british spelling is used. Can you say why that is so? I'm worried because my upcoming book has mostly American spelling but I want to make sure I am being consistent. I have put 'color' instead of 'colour' and I want to make sure I'm not wrong. I am going to check the story with an editor but I would like to get it as error free as possible beforehand. Thank you very much for your time!🤗

[@SparkleEnglish]

Hello! Is it possible that the book you are reading was published in Canada or written by a Canadian author?

[@Crina-LudmilaCristeaAuthor]

@@SparkleEnglish The book is Honeycomb by Joanne Harris. She is a British-French author (I think). I know she lives in Yorkshire. I often use American spelling but sometimes I write in words which are more used in Britain or are British and I may be unaware of this difference because my main language is Romanian. My main concern is, "Would this be fine or is it unacceptable?" I'm also thinking that this could be the way a narrator speaks and that should be fine, or at least acceptable, when telling a story, right? It is a short children's story of about 4500 words. I guess I'm just worried of not confusing readers while I'm trying to sneak in certain words that are not as frequently used but have beautiful meaning.😅😓 Do you ever do proofreading for others?

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[@brucezhang4621]

Hi, Miss. I'm not sure whether your name is Sparkle, but thank you very much for making this great video. And could you please help me check this following sentence and its punctuations? We don't have to wait until Mother's Day to say "Mom, I love you!". And do you think there is always a comma between the word "say" and a quotation mark? Do you think a quotation mark(on the right) has the function of ending a sentence just as a period does, so that it's no use to put a period after the quotation mark(on the right) to end the whole sentence, please?

[@adaneman6000]

you need to put a comma after say.

[@IKKK_News]

Yep , great one

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[@saadsultan1745]

Thank you so much ma'am u explain it very well but of two sentence came with full stop between themm and one person said them than we have to put quotation marks separately or one one both sentences . On 19 I have paper plz teacher tell me.

[@martyb9807]

I know someone who uses quotation marks all the time. For instance, she wrote We go “tent camping” whenever we can. I wrote that sentence just as she did (without using the proper quote marks) so you can comment on her placement of quotation marks around the tent camping words. Hope I’m making sense.

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[@SparkleEnglish]

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Please explain how and when to use hyphens to connect clauses.

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[@josephholoien]

For the last one it should be... "Did you talk to Jane?" She told me, "'I am quitting my job.'"

[@dmrcreations3311]

Hi I was practicing these rules and on practice 3 the second answer, could you go over that answer? ..Not sure if I got that one correct..It starts off The rabbit? I'm not sure but it skipped that one and went straight to next example.

[@dmrcreations3311]

Can you please tell me the correct quotations for the one with The rabbit lol I think the answer wasn't on there? Practice #3

[@jaybird-hn3dq]

I think, Do you agree with the phrase, 'time is money' ? Is better. Since i think double quotation are only used in dialogues, the phrase sounded awkward to me. Can you tell me if i am wrong?

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[@ericalaughton1032]

I have a specific question. I am taking a transcription exam and the audio says: If this statement is made: “The non-circumstantial evidence will show that a 2003 Buick Excelle was stolen on the night of February 8th, 2000, in Poughkeepsie, New York, taken from the fenced-in park-, parking lot of Adam’s Far-, Farm off of Dutchess Turnpike.” All the pieces of critical content, in this case, the proper nouns, have to be accurate in the transcript. How would you use the punctuation around this quote?

[@Bea_remembrance]

If you have a character speaking multiple paragraphs of dialogue where do you put the quotation marks? At every paragraph or just at the beginning and end of the multiple dialogue? Also many books have a character talking with single quotations marks. Single quotations marks look neater.

[@mysapphirestar]

Strictly speaking, you should only put quotation marks around the complete quotation, that is at the beginning and end. sometimes you will find opening quotation marks at the beginning of each paragraph, but closing marks only at the end. This is a courtesy to help the reader keep track of the quotation. Printed pages often use single marks because, as you say, it looks neater. This is especially true where there are pages of mainly dialogue .

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