Brackets Parentheses and Quotation Marks

A period (.) typically ends a statement, while a period or an exclamation mark (!) may end a command, depending on the tone and context.

Each punctuation mark has a different meaning. The period (.) means it is the end of a thought. A exclamation mark (!) means that someone wants to emphasize what they just said. A question mark (?) means that the text before is should be read as a question. A colon (:) means that the material after the colon will most like be a list. A semi-colon (;) means that the writer is introducing a new thought within the sentence.

You are the writer. Whether or not you would put onomatopoeia in quotation marks would depend on how you used it. The dog said, "Bark." The bee said, "Buzz." The dog ran down the street, bark bark. The bee flew past, buzz, buzz. Are you making it deliberate or inadvertent? Is it descriptive?

No, quotation marks are not typically used with onomatopoeias. Onomatopoeias are words that represent sounds, like "buzz" or "meow". They are usually written as regular words without quotation marks.

No, whatever end punctuation is at the end of the quote is enough. No comma is needed.

Examples:
Correct - She screamed, "The house is on fire!" and then she ran out the front door.
Incorrect - She screamed, "The house is on fire!," and then she ran out the front door.

In American English, periods are typically placed inside quotation marks at the end of a sentence. However, in British English, the period is placed outside the quotation marks unless it is part of the quoted material.

Yes, punctuation marks play a crucial role in a descriptive essay. They help organize ideas, clarify meaning, and guide the reader through the text. Commas, periods, colons, and semicolons are commonly used to create a clear and effective flow of information in descriptive writing.

In academic writing, you'll follow the MLA -- Modern Language Association guidelines. Seehttp:/www.mla.org.

In other writing, you'll follow the standard style guide for the publisher.

If you have no access to a style guide, it's a good idea just to be consistent.

For example, you would probably capitalize the first letter of every word in a speech title. It would not be necessary to use quote marks, italics, or bold font, especially if the context of what you're writing clearly indicates that the words are the title of a speech.

I don't know if you're asking if quotation marks should be used to begin a sentence or if you're asking if a sentence should be started with a quote from an outside source. So I will answer both. Quotation marks may begin a sentence at any time necessary. While writing essays, in my experience, professors like a little introduction before a quote. But there's no rule saying you can't. Maybe in the sentence before the quote you write an explanation then end the sentence and start the next with a quote. But you could most times use a colon instead of ending the sentence and then the quote would still be within the first sentence.

Yes, quotation marks are typically used within speech bubbles to indicate direct speech by a character in written works such as comics or graphic novels. It helps to distinguish spoken words from narration or other text within the same panel.

Terminal punctuation marks are used at the end of a sentence, such as periods, question marks, and exclamation points. Internal punctuation marks are used within a sentence, such as commas, semicolons, and colons.

The stress mark in Spanish is called a "tilde" and is placed on the stressed syllable of a word. The rules for placing the stress mark vary depending on the type of word (agudas, llanas, esdrújulas), but generally, you'll find them in words that don't follow the standard rules of stress placement or to differentiate between homonyms.

If a proper name or nickname is part of a quote and requires quotation marks, use double quotation marks for the overall quote and single quotation marks within the quote for the proper name or nickname.

Double quotation marks are typically used for both proper names and nicknames in writing. For example, "John" or "Johnny". However, it is essential to be consistent in your usage throughout your writing.

Quotation marks are used to indicate actual dialogue, or spoken words (quotes) or written words from a source.

They can also be used to indicate a term or phrase whose meaning is not what it appears to be, or with which there could be disagreement.

Example (quote) : He said "I went to town."

Example (written) : Mark Twain wrote "When in doubt, tell the truth."

Example (contention) : The mayor announced some "improvements" in the tax system.

In British English, the speech marks typically come before the full stop. In American English, they usually come before the closing punctuation mark. It's important to be consistent within the style guide you are following.

No, a quotation should be closed with a punctuation mark such as a period, question mark, or exclamation point, depending on the context of the sentence. A comma should not be used to close a quotation.

That would still just be a quotation mark.

In American English, periods typically come before closing quotation marks, regardless of whether it is part of the quoted text. For example: She said, "Hello." In British English, periods are placed outside closing quotation marks unless they are part of the actual quote.

Brackets are used in a quotation when you need to insert your own words or clarification within the quoted text. They should not be used to alter the original meaning of the quote.

The only pronoun that is always capitalized is the first person, singular, subjective, personal pronoun 'I'.

Other pronouns are capitalized only when they are the first word in a sentence.

These rules apply to text within quotation marks or without quotation marks.

The punctuation mark below the quotation mark is called an "underline" or "underscore." It is often used in academic writing to emphasize or highlight a specific word or phrase within the quotation.

If you're constructing a sentence that has two independent clauses connected by a semicolon and the first sentence happens to end with a quotation mark, hypothetically, the semicolon would go inside of the ending quotation mark. This is rarely the case, though. Typically, quotations end in either a comma and a conjunction, a single comma, or simply a period.

They are called either quotation marks or speech marks.

A semi-quote mark (in the context of English punctuation) is 1: a single quote mark (') as opposed to the double quote ("). Single quotes are used to mark a quote within a quote. As in "I did not say 'never.'" 2: one of « or », used to mark a phrase that is "semi-quoted" (a tight paraphrase that contains some of the original author's words). 3: A paraphrase that closely follows the original. As in «Consider the lilies of the fields: they neither toil nor spin, but not even King Solomon in his glory was dressed as well.»