The use of quotation marks in English slogans

Quotes are divided into single quotes and double quotes. Single quotation marks are only used in a direct speech contained in another direct speech.

1. stands for direct speech. When more than four lines or more than 40 words are quoted directly, quotation marks are generally not used, but are changed to bold to make the boundaries with other parts of the article clear.

"Well," the foreigner said to him, "you look like an engineer."

Periods and commas must be enclosed in quotation marks (double quotation marks and single quotation marks).

He told the gunman, "I refuse to do that"; However, even as he said these words, his knees were still shaking.

She calls this activity schedule her "load": work, study, exercise, entertainment and sleep.

Colons and semicolons must be enclosed in quotation marks.

The teacher asked, "Can you understand me?

Did the teacher ask, "Are they gone?"?

Did the teacher ask, "Are they gone?"

The frightened girl screamed, "Help"!

The guy just said, "I'm sorry!" " He interrupted me, "Now, listen"-go on.

Question marks, exclamation points and dashes are sometimes placed inside quotation marks and sometimes outside nicknames. If the quoted content itself is a question or exclamation sentence or has a dash, the question mark, exclamation point or dash is usually put in quotation marks. Otherwise, put it outside quotation marks.

2. Indicate the titles of short publications, such as magazines, newspaper articles, short poems, short stories and a chapter of the whole book.

Have you read The Old Man and the Sea?

The title of the third chapter is "Internet"

3. The words used have special meanings. In addition, when slang appears in more formal articles, it will also be quoted to show that it intends to change the writing style.

The report contains the facts of the case.

The speaker owns a "diet farm" in California, which charges $2,500 a week to lose weight for the gluttonous rich.

4. Used to express words that attract readers' attention or special words that readers are not familiar with.

Whenever someone says "thank you", they usually say "welcome"

"SOS" is a distress message sent by a ship or plane when it is in danger.

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