How to tell whether punctuation marks are inside or outside quotation marks?

The most basic use of quotation marks is quotation, which includes direct quotation and indirect quotation. The usage of punctuation marks is different between direct quotation and indirect quotation, as follows:

1. Direct quotation is to completely record what a person said, and there are three situations, for example:

1. My aunt broke off a few branches and threw them down. She called me by my nickname and said, "Feed you first!"

2. "Oh, it's so beautiful!" The emperor said, "I Very satisfied!"

3. "What are you afraid of! The beauty of the sea is here!" I said.

2. Indirect quotation is a quotation in which someone's original words are informally, incompletely and casually put into one's own words. If this type of quotation is not clearly stated, it will be difficult to detect that it is a quotation. For example:

1. Properly improving one's life is not only "can you control it?" but also is in accordance with the laws of nature and human nature.

2. The horses painted by modern painter Xu Beihong are, as some critics say, "both physical and spiritual, full of vitality."

From the above usage, it can be seen that the punctuation marks for direct quotations are within the quotation marks, and the punctuation marks for indirect quotations are outside the quotation marks.

Extended information:

1. Generally speaking, quotation marks and quotation marks should be used in pairs, but there are exceptions. That is, when one paragraph after another is quoted directly, the middle paragraph only Use quotation marks at the beginning of a paragraph, but do not use quotation marks at the end of the paragraph.

For example, if someone speaks five paragraphs, the capitals of the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth paragraphs should be in quotation marks, but the end of the first, second, third, and fourth paragraphs should not be in quotation marks. , backtick marks are only used at the end of the fifth paragraph. In addition, when you need to use quotation marks inside quotation marks, use double quotation marks on the outer layer and single quotation marks on the inner layer.

2. In addition to quotation, quotation marks also have the function of emphasis, for example:

1. Looking up from the foot of the mountain, we can see that the torches are arranged in many zigzags, connecting to Heaven.

2. She said she had a bit of a demonic look on her face, and she must have met a "beautiful snake".

3. In addition, quotation marks also have the effect of irony, used to express sarcasm and ridicule. For example:

The way they (referring to friendly people) maintain their "order" in prison has torn off their mask of "civilization".

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