Quoted speech
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This document provides guidelines for formatting quoted speech in writing, including quoting one sentence or multiple sentences and dealing with questions or exclamations. It indicates that quoted material should be enclosed in quotation marks and the attribution ("she said", etc.) should follow the final punctuation. For multiple sentences, quotation marks should encompass the entire quote with punctuation inside for individual sentences.
Quoted speech
- 2. Quoted Speech refers to reproducing words exactly as they were originally spoken
- 3. Quoting One Sentence ~ She said, My brother is a student. Use comma after she said. Capitalize the first word of the quoted sentence. Put the final quotation marks outside the period at the end of the sentence. ~ My brother is a student, she said. Use comma, not a period, at the end of the quoted sentence when it precedes she said.
- 4. Quoting More Than One Sentence ~My brother is a sportsman. He is participating in competitions, she said. Quotation marks are placed at the beginning and of the end of the complete quote. Notice: There are no quotation marks after sportsman. ~My brother is a sportsman, she said. He is participating competitions. Since she said comes between two quoted sentences, the second sentence begins with quotation marks and a capital letter.
- 5. Quoting a question or an Exclamation ~He asked, Where have you been? The question marks is inside the closing quotation marks. ~Where have you been? he asked. Since a question mark is used, no comma is used before he asked. ~She said, Watch out! The exclamation point is inside the closing quotation marks.