Comments on: Quotations within Quotations

By: Jane

Jane — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:01:41 +0000

“Didn’t she say, ‘How did you do that?’”

By: ravi bedi

ravi bedi — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 06:53:44 +0000

If I do that, how will the sentence end?

e.g., “Didn’t she say,’how did you do that?’…how do we finish this, with a single’ or “?

Also, the ‘h’; small or capital?

By: Jane

Jane — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 16:10:10 +0000

By all the comments to this blog, I can see how many people have been taught incorrectly. You don’t need the first set of quotation marks around
Didn’t she say…
because that is not part of the quote. Even if someone had actually said that part of the sentence, the question mark would be placed inside the single quotation mark.

By: ravi bedi

ravi bedi — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 08:21:40 +0000

I thought it should read as:

“Didn’t she say,’How did you do that’ ?”

By: Jane

Jane — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 15:53:20 +0000

Mandy, you were taught incorrectly. Use double quotation marks for text and names unless they are within quoted material already. The other option with names of magazines, manufacturer’s names, products, etc., is to use italics.

By: Mandy

Mandy — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 12:17:29 +0000

On the subject of quotation marks, I was taught to use single marks (’) for quoting text, names, etc. and double marks (”) for spoken words. Have you heard of this? Is it double marks for anything quoted, for instance, a manufacturer’s name on a label, or a product name?