Who can tell us the usage of'' in English?

Quotation quotation marks (double quotation marks ""single quotation marks, unless otherwise specified)

Tag single quotation mark'')

5. 1 direct reference, which is the most common usage:

5. 1. 1 quotation marks are the original sentence:

1. She said, "Good." She said, "Hurry up." (Pay attention to the differences in punctuation usage between Chinese and English)

2. "I can come today," she said, "but not tomorrow."

3. The sign changed from "walking" to "Don't walk" and then to "walking".

In 30 seconds

4. "I'm finally tired enough to sleep," she yawned.

The end is a comma, and no period is allowed. )

5. They shouted, "Congratulations!" Go through the door.

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5. 1.2 If the quoted sentence itself is declarative and the whole sentence is interrogative, put a question mark after the quotation marks:

1. Did he say, "I'm going to college next year"? (Note that it is "..."? Question mark in

Outside quotation marks)

Do you agree with the proverb, "A living dog is better than a dead lion"

Do you agree with the sentence in quotation marks, so put a question mark at the end of the sentence.

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5. 1.3 If the quotation mark itself is a problem, then the question mark should be enclosed in quotation marks:

1. Did he say, "Are you going to college next year?" (Here "...?" this

Questions should be enclosed in quotation marks. Can't write as he said, "Are you going to college next?".

Year? "? )

2. She asked, "Will you still be my friend?" There is no question mark at the end of the sentence. )

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5. 1.4 If the quoted word or phrase is not interrupted in the whole sentence, there is no need to add a comma:

. The phrase "lovely, dark and deep" began to imply ominous.

Overtone

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5. 1.5 If the quoted sentence is part of a sentence, put a colon (:) before the quotation marks:

1. My mother likes to quote Shakespeare best: "The most important thing is to be true to yourself."

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5. 1.6 If there is another quotation in the quotation, use a single quotation mark (') to indicate the difference:

1. George explained, "I heard her say,' Go away!' So I left. "

He said, "Mary said,' Don't treat me like that.' "(Note that the period at the end of the sentence is in single quotation marks, and punctuation is not allowed between single quotation marks and double quotation marks at the end of the sentence.)

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5. 1.7 When there are more than two paragraphs in the quotation, only quotation marks (") are used at the beginning of each paragraph, and quotation marks (") are not added until the end of the paragraph:

"This is the 1 segment (only).

This is the second paragraph (only ""is used here).

"This is the third paragraph." (Use ""at the end)

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5. 1.8 quotations from multi-person dialogues, with each dialogue accounting for one paragraph:

"I'll do my best," he said. A comma is used at the end of the quotation marks, not a period, because he said follow.

"How old is he?" She asked.

"According to his passport, he is the third."

"What's his real name?"

"Wilson"

"Edward Wilson," she said softly.

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5.2 Quotation belongs to "silent dialogue", with or without quotation marks:

1. Oh, what a beautiful morning, Curly said to himself. (Oh, what a

The beautiful morning is what curly said to himself. It didn't make a sound.

2. "Oh, what a beautiful morning!" Curly said to him. (quotation marks are ok)

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5.3 Indirect quotation cannot be quoted:

1. The president said that the North American Free Trade Agreement will eventually benefit small businesses in both countries. What the president said later is not the original words, so don't put quotation marks. )

Professor Vera told her students that the textbook had not been published.

Bookstore.

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5.4 Articles, reports, comments, short stories, poems, plays, movies and other titles/articles are all quoted.

5.4. 1 Use double quotation marks ("") for the title or topic mentioned in the sentence:

1. My favorite short story is Treasure. English style is a "treasure" in quotation marks. )

My favorite poem is Robert Frost's Design.

3. The poem "Tree" was written by Joyce Kiel. ("Tree" is in a sentence, and other punctuation is not allowed)

Time Machine is my favorite movie.

What do you think of william shakespeare's Henry V? Besides periods and commas, the position of other questions such as question marks depends on the sentence. )

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5.4.2 The quotation marks appearing in newspaper headlines should be single quotation marks ('):

1. Congress shouted "Shame!"

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5.5 Special vocabulary

5.5. 1 When special terms or words with special emphasis are quoted, there should be no comma before the quotation marks:

1. The doctor called the red spot "hemangioma" (can't write ... as a "hemangioma")

2. Sartre's treatment of "existence", contrary to his treatment of "non-existence", is deeply described in Kaufman's book. (Key concepts in philosophy are applied in single quotation marks)

Translated from Douban Jojo: Usage of Quotations in English