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

The most basic usage of quotation marks is quotation, including direct quotation and indirect quotation. The punctuation usage of direct quotation and indirect quotation is different, as follows:

First, direct speech is a complete record of what people say, which can be divided into three situations, such as:

1. My aunt broke some branches and threw them down. She called my nickname and said, "feed you first!" "

2. "Oh, how beautiful!" The emperor said, "I am very satisfied!" " "

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

Second, indirect speech is a speech that puts someone's original words in his own words informally, incompletely and casually. If this kind of quotation is not explained clearly, it is difficult to find it is a quotation. For example:

1. Improving your life appropriately is not only "none of your business", but also natural and human.

2. The horse painted by modern painter Xu Beihong, as some critics have said, is "full of vigor and vitality".

As can be seen from the above usage, direct reference punctuation marks are inside quotation marks, and indirect reference punctuation marks are outside quotation marks.

Extended data:

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

For example, some people say that five paragraphs should be capitalized with quotation marks, but there is no back quotation mark at the end of the first, second, third and fifth paragraphs, and the back quotation mark is only used at the end of the fifth paragraph. In addition, when quotation marks are used inside quotation marks, double quotation marks are used outside and single quotation marks are used inside.

Two, quotation marks in addition to reference, but also has the role of emphasis, such as:

1, looking up from the foot of the mountain, I saw the torches arranged in many zigzag patterns, reaching into the sky.

It is said that there is something evil on her face, and she must have met a "beautiful snake".

Third, in addition, quotation marks also have the function of irony, which is used to express irony and ridicule. For example:

They (friendly people) tear off their masks of "civilization" by maintaining their "order" prisons.

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