Quotation Marks
1. Quotation marks come at the beginning and at the end of exact words that are being spoken by a speaker.
ex. "Your seats are in section B, seats 1 and 2," the usher said as he ripped our tickets.
* If you paraphrase what was said (an indirect quote), you do NOT use quotation marks.
ex. The store clerk told me that I could find baseball gloves in aisle two.
2. Quotation marks are used at the beginning and end of titles of smaller works:
~ titles of chapters in a book - "The Letters to No One" in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
~ song titles - "Sweet Child O' Mine" by Guns N' Roses
~ poems from a collection - "A Sad Child" by Margaret Atwood
~ short stories - "A Sound of Thunder" by Ray Bradbury
~ articles in magazines or newspapers - "ScapeX rocket launches to International Space Station" -
Maclean's
~ episodes in TV and radio programs - "A Land Without Magic" is the pilot episode for Once Upon
a Time
* Longer worker (novels, albums, TV and radio programs etc) are underlined or italicized. Do NOT use
quotation marks.
ex. "Your seats are in section B, seats 1 and 2," the usher said as he ripped our tickets.
* If you paraphrase what was said (an indirect quote), you do NOT use quotation marks.
ex. The store clerk told me that I could find baseball gloves in aisle two.
2. Quotation marks are used at the beginning and end of titles of smaller works:
~ titles of chapters in a book - "The Letters to No One" in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
~ song titles - "Sweet Child O' Mine" by Guns N' Roses
~ poems from a collection - "A Sad Child" by Margaret Atwood
~ short stories - "A Sound of Thunder" by Ray Bradbury
~ articles in magazines or newspapers - "ScapeX rocket launches to International Space Station" -
Maclean's
~ episodes in TV and radio programs - "A Land Without Magic" is the pilot episode for Once Upon
a Time
* Longer worker (novels, albums, TV and radio programs etc) are underlined or italicized. Do NOT use
quotation marks.