By Quotation marks, Paragraphs

Playing to Win by Margaret A. Whitney 1 My daughter is an athlete. Nowadays, this statement won’t strike many parents as unusual, but it does me. Until her freshman year in high school, Ann was only marginally interested in sport of any kind. When she played, she didn’t swing hard, often...

It must close sometime, but if it is a long quotation, it could be delayed for several paragraphs. Where there are several consecutive paragraphs of speech, open quotation marks are used at the beginning of the first and every following paragraph; close the quotation marks at the end of the...

I have a friend that insists on using open quotation marks in his writing such as the following "most people would have stopped for the injured bird. (then proceeds to start another paragraph.) When is an open quotation acceptable?

Hello Doumiar I think this extract comes from the young merchant's tale within The Flying Trunk. In your text, the young merchant's tale itself appears to be enclosed in double quotation marks. Speech within the young merchant's tale ('Now you are talking too fast' etc.) is enclosed in...

Does anyone know the "formal" or "technical" name for the words that announce the speaker? She said," In a long speech quotation marks appear at the beginning of each new paragraph, and end when the speaker has finished." In the above sentence, do the words "she said" have a grammatical...

I have two questions concerning quotation marks. The first is; When in a paragraph a person is thinking a sentence or two, and these are strictly thoughts that are not actually spoken, are quotation marks used in the same way one would quote a person's speech? Example; At first Jennifer was...

When you know your family will add a new member, you are sure of one thing: you are determined to do everything in your power to give your new family member the best possible start in life. You really have written two good statement here. Congratulations. I like what you have written.

The (incomplete) Punctuation FAQ Hopefully this will grow in time, as other questions are asked and answered, and other people add to this. Hopefully (!) some kind moderator or adminstrator will mark this thread as sticky. INTRODUCTION In grammar, the rules are forged in a delicate balance...

When one is quoting a rather long speech, where it is more than one paragraph long, what is the proper way to put the quotation marks? Thank you, Miss V