Tham khảo tài liệu 'mastering machanics 6', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 108 Part II Mastering Mechanics__ Answers to Quotation Problems D I plan to pitch added Becky who once tried out for the Olympics. The directly quoted words I plan to pitch are enclosed in quotation marks. The comma that sets off the speaker tag added Becky goes inside the closing quotation mark. b Andy interrupted As usual I will play third base. The speaker tag comes first in this sentence so the comma is placed before the opening quotation mark. The period that ends the sentence goes inside the closing quotation mark. B No one knew how to answer Andy who in the past has been called overly sensitive. The quotation is short but it still deserves double quotation marks. Single quotation marks in American usage are reserved for embedded quotations. British custom is different perhaps because they eat all those cucumber sandwiches. The period at the end of the sentence is placed as periods always are in American usage inside the closing quotation mark. Notice that this quotation doesn t have a speaker tag so it isn t preceded by a comma and it doesn t start with a capital letter. d Gus said No one wanted Andy at third base the entire Snyder family has terribly slow reaction time. The speaker tag is followed by a comma. A semicolon always goes outside the closing quotation mark unless you re quoting a long passage that has a semicolon somewhere inside. A period ends the sentence. B Who wants to win asked the boss in a commanding take-no-prisoners tone. Because the quoted words are a question the question mark goes inside the closing quotation mark. Okay everybody knows that boss s questions aren t real questions they re more like threats. Grammatically speaking however they fall into the question category and thus take a question mark. f Did she mean it when she said that we were not hard-boiled enough to play decently The quoted words aren t a question but the entire sentence is. The question mark belongs .
