Italics, quotes, ' ' '

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Italics, quotes, . . .
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Italics

• Long works
• Books, plays, long poems, periodicals, works of
  art, movies, TV series
• Articles (an, a, the) are italicized when part of
  the title

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Italics

• Names of ships trains, aircraft, spacecraft
• Foreign words (not adopted into English)
• Words, letters, symbols, numerals referred to as
  such

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Quotations marks

• Direct quotations (someone elses EXACT words)
• Joan said, My legs are sore from jogging.
• Not for indirect quotations (rewording of someone
  elses words)
• Joan said her legs were sore from jogging.

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Quotations marks

• Start a directly quoted sentence with a capital
  letter
• Bianca asked, When do we get our books?
• If it is divide into two parts, the second part
  starts with a lower case
• I hope, Diego said, that it doesnt rain.
• If the 2nd part is a new sentence, use a cap
• The date is set, said Greg, We cant change
  it

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Quotations marks

• Set off a direct quote with a comma, a question
  mark, or an exclamation mark, but not a period.
• Commas and periods are inside the quotes
• Blah blah, he said.
• Colons and semicolons are outside
• The following students are named most likely to
  succeed
• Question marks and exclamations can be either,
  depending on the sentence
• What time is the game tomorrow? Marie asked
• Why did you shout, It doesnt matter?

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Quotations marks

• In dialogue, begin a new paragraph every time the
  speaker changes
• Enclose each speakers words in quotation marks.
• A long passage quoted from a book is set off from
  the rest with no quotation marks
• When a quoted passage has more than one
  paragraph, begin each with quotation marks, but
  no closing marks until the end.

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Quotations marks

• Use single quotation marks to enclose a question
  or title within a quotation
• Ron said, Dad told me, No way!
• Val asked, Did you like my rendition of America
  the Beautiful?

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Quotations marks

• Use quotation marks to enclose slang, technical,
  or unusual uses of words
• Those shoes are fly.
• The computer runs on gigaflops.
• That car is a gas guzzler.

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Ellipsis points . . .

• Use them for
• Indicating omitted words/sentences
• Indicating a . . . pause.

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Ellipsis points . . .

• Use three . . .
• Include a space before and after them
• When theres punctuation before or after the
  omitted bit, keep it. . . .
• For omitting a line of a poem, use a whole line
  of spaced periods

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Try . . .

• Ch. 13 ex. 1, 2, 3 Rev. A, B