A few days ago
grammar help!?
What would be the proper way to quote a book that has quotes in the sentence. Here is what I am trying to quote:
“Hey, hey, you girls, no more fighting!” said my father, as if Waverly and I were still children arguing over tricycles.
I wasn’t sure how to quote the father while I was quoting the book.
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To quote from the book (the entire portion you wrote) place ” on the beginning and ” on the end. To quote the portion the father says put ‘ at the beginnning and ‘ at the end so it should look like this….
“‘Hey, hey, you girls, no more fighting!’ said my father, as if Waverly and I were still children arguing over tricycles.”
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A few days ago
you always start and end a quote with quotations. that look like this ”
when there is a quote inside a quote, you use what looks like an apostrophe or half of a quotation mark. it looks like this ‘
So if I were writing about your quote it would look like this:
In this quote from the story, the narrator uses a metaphor relating older girls to children. “‘Hey, hey, you girls, no more fighting!’ said my father, as if Waverly and I were still children arguing over tricycles.”
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“Hey, hey, you girls, no more fighting!” said my father, “as if Waverly and I were still children arguing over tricycles”
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