How To Write Quotes Within Quotes

Indicate the secondary source using double quotation marks.

How to write quotes within quotes. The american rule is that periods always go inside all quotation marks. When you come to the second quote use a comma before beginning the quote within a quote. In american english you start with double quotation marks and then single quotation marks. In memories of west street and lepke robert lowell a conscientious objector or c o recounts meeting a jehovah s witness in prison. Bobbi said i read an interesting article titled a poor woman s journey.

Use double quotation marks around the secondary source s passage. Are you a c. Make sure you are very clear with the names of who is saying what. Use single quotation marks for quotations within quotations. But then someone told me pay it no mind lad note that the period goes inside both the single and double quotation marks.

One level of nesting the most common reason for nesting punctuation is shown in section 1 3 7 of the mla handbook p. Quotations and capitalization sometimes the text inside quotation marks is capitalized other times it isn t. British usage has it outside unless it is part of the quotation as far as i know. If you re using single quotes on the outside use doubles on the inside. In british english you start with single quotation marks and then double quotation marks.

When you need to present a quotation within a quotation use double quotation marks around the quotation incorporated into your text and single quotation marks around the quotation within that quotation. We could put quotes inside quotes inside quotes inside quotes and the quotes would always be in alternating quotation marks doubles or singles. Give the name of the first person who is speaking at the beginning of the first quote and then name the person he or she quotes before beginning the second quote. 4 use single quotation marks around the quoted portion. When you put a quote inside a quote you alternate between double and single quotation marks.

Here are the three takeaway points. The first nested quote would then be inside single quotation marks and a. In american english use double quotation marks for quotations and single quotation marks for quotations within quotations. Capitalization of the quoted material depends on the material itself if you re quoting a complete sentence you should start the quote with a capital letter even if the quote is placed in the middle of a sentence. In british english use single quotation marks for if you are using double quotation marks for the outside quote use single quotation marks for the inside quote.