How to Use Quotation Marks
To be able to produce powerful and impactful literary pieces require one to have a stronghold grammar and usage of punctuation. While grammar ensures that your sentences make sense to the reader, punctuation helps add emotions and feel into writing. Using the right punctuation at the right time is critical, as it can totally change the meaning of a sentence. A lot of students and sometimes even adults get confused when they have to use quotation marks. It is a form of punctuation that is used when writing down direct quotations, titles of works when implying alternate meaning, and even when writing words as words and not using them for literal meaning. When you are writing a direct quote that is a complete sentence, you need to make sure that you capitalize the sentence within the quotation mark, even when it is used in the middle of a sentence. When you are using a direct quote, but it is a fragment and not a complete sentence, you do not have to capitalize on it.
Using Them
Read each sentence. If it is punctuated correctly, circle the check mark. If they are not used correctly, circle the X.
Speaker's Words
Underline each speaker's words. Then rewrite the passage, adding quotation marks where necessary.
Direct Speech
When the words of a speaker are actually reproduced in text, it is called direct speech.
Write Them
Read the story below. Underline direct speech. Then use a colored marker or colored pencil to add quotation marks and commas where needed.
Titles
Quotation marks are used around the titles of songs, poems, short stories, newspaper articles, and when referencing chapters in books.
Quoting People
Write a sentence that includes each of the quotations below and the name of the person who said them. Punctuate correctly.
Correcting Sentences That Contain Direct Speech
Use commas, quotation marks, capital letters, or make any other changes necessary in order to rewrite the sentences correctly.
Mark It
Copy each quote on the lines below. Be careful to add commas and quotation marks where they are needed.
Punctuating Direct Speech
Read each sentence. If it is punctuated correctly, circle the smiley face. If they are not used correctly, circle the X.
