The problem you have is that quotation marks are supposed to indicate an exact quote, not a general rehash of what was said or thought. Maybe you could have your character talk to himself, as "Oh Brother," he said too himself, wondering

The sentence is "She was determined to get rid of them if she found any". http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/quotes.asp

Hi, Where does one place the period? Is it after the ending quotation marks ("Leaf".) or before the ending quotation marks ("Leaf.") The sentence would be: I read the book "Leaf". OR I read the book

Hi, Where does one place the period? Is it after the ending quotation marks ("Leaf".) or before the ending quotation marks ("Leaf.") Thanks, MVB

Hi, Which sentence is correct? 1-I read the book "Leaf". OR I read the book "Leaf." OR I read the book Leaf . OR I read the book Leaf. Do we underline the book in a sentence or can we put quotation

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

That's incorrect. Just use one period/full stop. In the US, the period always goes inside th quote marks. Even in the UK, where there is more logic in its use, the period should go inside here, I believe, because "Rose is

Is this acceptable? Quoting from a passage:- The sentence is "Rose is happy.". Double fullstops. I am still quite confused.

The quote marks around "objectivity" indicate that, while the Europeans may have thought they were being objective, they really weren't, or at least the author doesn't think they were. (Nowadays this use of quotation marks seems

There is none. Question marks, exclamation marks and periods are mutually exclusive: they never occur together except for the informal '?!' to express consternation.