This exercise will give you practice in applying our Guidelines for Using Quotation Marks Effectively (U.S. edition). To view this exercise without ads, click on the printer icon near the top of the page.
Instructions:
Insert quotation marks wherever they are needed in the sentences below. When you're done, compare your answers with those on page two.
- For several weeks in 2009, the Black Eyed Peas held the top two spots on the music charts with their songs I Gotta Feeling and Boom Boom Pow.
- Last week we read A Modest Proposal, an essay by Jonathan Swift.
- Last week we read A Modest Proposal; this week we're reading Shirley Jackson's short story The Lottery.
- In a famous New Yorker essay in October 1998, Toni Morrison referred to Bill Clinton as our first black president.
- Bonnie asked, Are you going to the concert without me?
- Bonnie asked if we were going to the concert without her.
- In the words of comedian Steve Martin, Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
- The indie folk band Deer Tick sang What Kind of Fool Am I?
- Was it Dylan Thomas who wrote the poem Fern Hill?
- Uncle Gus said, I heard your mother singing Tutti Frutti out behind the barn at three o'clock in the morning.
- I've memorized several poems, Merdine said, including The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost.
- All our failures, wrote Iris Murdoch, are ultimately failures in love.
