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HOW DO YOU PUNCTUATE QUOTATIONS? WAG #2
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PLEASE LOOK CAREFULLY AT THE FOLLOWING SAMPLES TO DETERMINE WHAT YOU NOTICE ABOUT PUNCTUATING QUOTATIONS. WHAT WRITING OR GRAMMAR RULES CAN YOU IDENTIFY? 1 – “Lester Simmons was a thirty-year retired Pullman car porter – had his gold watch to prove it” (17). 2 – “There was nothing the young porters liked more than listening to Lester tell true stories about the old days…” (17). 3 – “ ‘Well,’ began one of the men, ‘wonder will we have to make up berths on that train?’ “ (17). 4 – Lester tells the young porters, “ ‘Well, in the end even [Daddy Joe] couldn’t escape the 11:59’” (17).
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QUOTATION PUNCTUATION RULES Use double quotation marks to enclose a piece of textual evidence. Make sure to lead in to the evidence with a comma. Lead in, “Textual evidence” (pg). Use single quotation marks to enclose a spoken quotation within a piece of textual evidence. Lead in, “ ’Spoken by character,’ within textual evidence” (pg). The period goes outside of the quotation marks when using a citation. If it ends in an ! or a ?, keep the original punctuation inside the quotation and place a period after the citation. Lead in, “Textual evidence” (pg). Lead in, “Question?” (pg). Lead in, “Exclamation!” (pg).
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QUOTATION PUNCTUATION RULES If you’re not using the entire quotation, use an ellipsis (…) to show that you’ve removed some Lead in, “Textual … evidence” (pg). If you need to insert something into a quotation for clarification, replace the unclear info with more specific information and put within square brackets [ ]. Lead in, “Textual [so it makes sense] evidence” (pg). In a sentence with an interrupted quotation, follow this format: “Half of sentence,” dialogue tag, “other half of sentence” (pg). “Sentence #1,” dialogue tag. “Sentence #2” (pg). “Half of sentence,” dialogue tag, “other half of sentence?” (pg).
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PLEASE COPY THESE SAMPLES INTO THE WAG SECTION OF YOUR NOTEBOOK. “Everybody enjoyed it too when Lester told tall tales about Daddy Joe, the porters’ larger-than-life hero” (16). “ ‘No,’ he said into the darkness. ‘I’m not ready. I’ve got plenty of living yet’ “ (19). “It was late. He could feel it…How much longer? he wondered. Was he close to winning?” (21). “Then in the fearful silence [Lester] heard a train whistle” (21).
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NOW ADD AT LEAST 2 OF YOUR OWN EXAMPLES THAT USE CORRECT QUOTATION PUNCTUATION – YOU MAY MAKE THEM UP OR FIND THEM IN YOUR SSR BOOK Try to include at least TWO of the following: An example that WOULD USE double quotation marks & a citation An example that WOULD USE single quotation marks & a citation An example of an interrupted quotation
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WAG #2 QUIZ – FRIDAY, 9/19 Review the rules of Quotation Punctuation! If you earn a B or better, you’ve proven that you do not need homework to review it. If you earn a C or lower, you will need to do some reteach homework for more practice.
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WAG QUIZ #2 – QUOTATION PUNCTUATION Please use textual evidence from EITHER your SSR Book or the short story “Raymond’s Run” (pg 29) to show correct quotation punctuation. You need to include the following: An example that uses double quotation marks & a citation An example that uses single quotation marks & a citation An example of an interrupted quotation
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