I am looking for suggestions as to how to punctuate a quote within speech. The actual quote is made-up and reads as follows: 'Ne'er ruffled were a calm, clear lake Without a boat the wake to make.' I would like to insert

This english "dialog style" seems worse if you ask me. Like the name sais "quotation mark" it should "quote" something and the dialog line should introduce dialog. My character is talking to me not quoting

Ok, I'm stuck with something. I'm writing a book and I am using the dialog line because I come from a country where that is how we write dialog. Example: - Hello, she said. - Hi, he answered. Now since I moved into an english talking

Are you sure it is not required? A pause there seems natural, and many texts state that after any form of to say a comma is required. I thought that the quotation marks were not strictly required because this is a form of silent speech but that

Are you sure it is not required? A pause there seems natural, and many texts state that after any form of to say a comma is required. I thought that the quotation marks were not strictly required because this is a form of silent speech but that

When using ellipses at the end of quotations, do we put spaces before the ellipses? What I mean is, which of the following is most correct? She said, "I'm not too sure.." or She said, "I'm not too sure .." Also, how

I'm editing my book and noticed I was interchanging single quotation marks and regular quotation marks and not really sure how to make it correct. It sounds like the Brits use the 'single' ones and the Americans use the

Hi Avangi, Thanks for your fine explanations to the "bail". Speaking of jargon, I'd like to ask you about "spoken", "slang", "formal" all these remarks that I've seen in dictionaries next to

direct speech /qouted speech Saying exactly what someone has said is called direct speech (sometimes called quoted speech) Here what a person says appears within quotation marks ("...") and should be word for word. For

When I use quotation marks for some text, it changes into italics. You have used quotation marks but you text still stands upright. How do you do this? I'm afraid I don't know. I don't do anything special, I just type the quote