As a high school English teacher I would use a semi-colon as technically they are all separate sentences except for the "Performance is improving." The other way you could go is to say Mary's teachers said, "She is always

Great question! Some organizations (such as some universities ) require italics. Most newspapers now use quotation marks. Find out which rule is followed at your school.

Hi. Please note that this made-up writing is written to ask questions on paraphrasing. Let us assume it is written by John Doe on his book titled "XXX", on page 9. Junk food is incurring heavy costs (toll?) on today's young

. If those quotation marks are for emphasis, they show a major misunderstanding of punctuation. I do not think it is a widespread practice-- at least not an acceptable one. Underline for emphasis. Quotation marks show unusual use of a word. Here,

My Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations (University of Chicago Press 1996) places the period firmly inside the quotation mark, thus: The sentence is 'He is clever.' It states unequivocally: In American usage, a final comma

Marius, Thank you for that hint about the quotation marks, i had completely forgotten about that when using search engines!!! I have not gotten that source yet and will find it at the library! I go to the University of Illinois in Urbana

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1. "Worse" is the comparative of "bad" while "worst" is the superlative. bad-worse-the worst His new movie is worse than his last. Your cooking is getting worse! (compared to before) Among his movies, the newest one is the worst. This is

Check out this link: http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/marks/quotation.htm I am an English teacher and when I went to university I was told to "always put the period after the quotation marks". :-) After viewing this website, I am now

Cece wrote on 29 Jul 2004: John Quincy Adams made the journey from the White House ... fighting to pass the Christian Amendment to the US Constitution. Christian Amendment? What Christian Amendment? JQAdams was a Unitarian. So what? He was a