1. Using Quotations Review
Week 12 Answers
Using Quotations Review

2. Week 12 – Day 1 Using Quotations
Write this down! Quotation Rule #1 – You can introduce the quote with a dialogue tag (like “he said” or “she
wrote”). Put a comma between the dialogue tag and the quote, and capitalize the first word of the quote.
In each example sentence, correct one capitalization or punctuation error (you do not need to write the entire sentence, just the correction):
1. A chess player once said, “Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to- last mistake.”
2. The famous painter Pablo Picasso said, “Give me a museum and I’ll fill it.”
3. “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have,” said Thomas Jefferson.
4. His jailer said, “All right, get in there with the others.”
5. “My feets is tired, but my soul is rested,” Mother Pollard announced.
6. He walked into the county courthouse, entered the sheriff’s office, and
asked, “Are you looking for me? Well, here I am.”
7. In her diary, Anne Frank wrote, “Things are just as bad as you yourself care to make them.”
Wordplay – Just for fun!
The root word “-scope- ” means “see or watch.” How many words can you list that contain this root?

3. Week 2 – Day 2 Using Quotations
Quotation Rule #2: If you introduce a quote with a complete independent clause (like “My mom told me something very important”), put a colon between the quote and the independent clause and capitalize the first word of the quote.
In each example sentence, correct one capitalization or punctuation error (you do not need to write the entire sentence, just the correction):
Blake rose from the driver’s seat and called out again: “Y’all better make it light on yourselves and let me have those seats.”
2. The leaflet urged the black community to support the boycott: “Don’t ride the buses to work, to town, to school, or anywhere on Monday.”
3. Walt Disney enjoyed a challenge: “It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.”
4. Napoleon Bonaparte made a wise statement: “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
5. Guitarist Jimi Hendrix had a deep thought: “Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.”
6. Martin Luther King taught an important truth: “The time is always right to do what is right.”
Wordplay – Just for fun!
The vowel combination “ew” almost always makes the sound found in “chew.” List as many words as you can that contain “ew.”

4. Day 3: One way to use a quotation is to make it part of your own sentence by using the word “that” (Martin Luther King believed that “the whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.”) You can also include just a small part of a quote in your sentence. When you do this, you don’t need a comma and you don’t need to capitalize the first word of the quote.
In each of the following sentences, find the error that needs to be corrected:
But as the weeks passed, he began to realize that “many of the threats were in earnest.”
He scolded them for acting like cowards, for backing down like “little boys.”
They expressed regret that “this unfortunate incident has taken place in our city.”
Grover Hall called the wholesale arrests “the dumbest act that has ever been done in Montgomery.”
That meant that the so-called “taxicab army” with its emergency ten-cent-a-ride fare would no longer be available.
If a dialogue tag interrupts a quote, use commas around the dialogue tag, but do not capitalize the second part of the quote.
In each of the following sentences, find the error or errors that needs to be corrected:
“Roses are red,” she recited, “violets are purphlish…”
“Next week,” the librarian whispered, “you should read this book.”
“On page fifty-seven,” Mrs. Jones said, “you’ll find the problems you need to do for homework.”

5. Day 4: In each sentence, notice the highlighted part
Day 4: In each sentence, notice the highlighted part. Write a punctuation or capitalization rule that explains why the highlighted part needs to look the way it does:
President John F. Kennedy said, “And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.” (comma and capital letter after a dialogue tag)
John F. Kennedy’s first speech as President of the United States contained a memorable quote: “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.” (A colon and capital letter following an independent clause)
You should always remember President Kennedy’s advice to “ask what you can do for your country.” (no punctuation or capitalization when the sentence continues into the quote)
“And so, my fellow Americans,” President Kennedy said, “ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.” (commas around an interrupting dialogue tag, but no capital letter when the quote begins again)
Kennedy said, “And so, my fellow Americans… ask what you can do for your country.” (…is used to show that part of the quote was removed)
The president told his listeners that they should “ask what [they] can do for [their] country.” (brackets show that the word was changed to make it grammatically correct)