1. Quotation Marks and Italics
NINTH GRADE ENGLISH

2. Quotation Marks
Use quotation marks to enclose ONLY direct quotations---exact words
Example:
Melanie said, “This car is making a very strange noise.”
“Maybe we should pull over,” suggested Amy.
She shouted, “We can win, team!”

3. Quotation Marks Do not use quotation marks with indirect quotations…
Examples
Stephanie said that she was going to wash the car.
The student said that he had already completed the project.

4. Quotation Marks Direct quotes generally begin with a capital letter.
Examples:
Explaining the lever, Archimedes said, “Give me a place to stand, and I can move the world.
Miss Perez answered, “The rest of the chapter, of course.

5. Quotation Marks
When an interrupting expression divides a quoted sentence into two parts, the second part begins with a lowercase letter.
Examples:
“I wish,” she said, “that we went to the same school.”
“I know,” I answered, “but at least we are friends.”

6. Quotation Marks
Direct quotes can be set off from the rest of the sentence by a quotation mark, exclamation point, a question mark…but not a period.
Basically, you can end a quote with any of these types of punctuation and continue your sentence.

7. Quotation Marks Rules for where to place punctuation:
Commas and periods are placed INSIDE closing QM
Semicolons and colons are placed OUTSIDE closing QM
Question marks and exclamation points are placed INSIDE closing QM…if the quote itself is quote or an exclamation…otherwise, they go outside

8. Italics/Underlining with Titles
When typing, you should use italics
When handwriting, you should use underlining
You should never use both
Although people do it all the time for emphasis in things such as notes…it’s not proper to do in formal English!

9. Italics/Underlining with Titles
Books
To Kill a Mockingbird
Drivers Ed
Plays
Romeo and Juliet
Driving Miss Daisy
Movies
Gone with the Wind
Night at the Museum
Newspapers
Mobile Press
USA Today
Magazines
People
Sports Illustrated, Seventeen
Television Series
CSI Miami
Mythbusters
Works of Art
Mona Lisa
The Thinker

10. Italics/Underlining with Titles
Ships
Titanic
Holiday
Airplanes
Enola Gay
Spirit of St. Louis
Spacecraft
Columbia
Apollo
Book Length
Poems
Odyssey
Illiad
Long Musical
Compositions (CD Titles)
Swan Lake
Leave This Town
Foreign Words
semper fidelis
carpe diem
Words Used as Words
The word Mississippi has four s’s and four i’s.

11. Quotation Marks with Titles
Articles
“What Teenagers Need
To Know about Diets
Essays
“Charley in Yellowstone”
“An Apartment in Yellowstone”
Short Stories
“The Most Dangerous Game”
“The Necklace”
Poems
“The Raven”
“Fifteen”
Songs
“Home”
“Sweet Caroline”
Episodes of
TV Series
“The Sure Thing”
“Monarch in Waiting”
Book Chapters
“The Talk of the Town”
“Life in the First Settlement”