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Brackets Parentheses and Quotation Marks
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Should you put quotes around nicknames?
If you are writing an obituary, then yes. In books, you will see them as a normal name: capitalized
Do you put quotation marks around a name of a game?
Yes. You would put quotation marks around the name of a game.
Examples
- "Minecraft"
- "Just Dance"
Why do you use abbreviation eg for example?
The abbreviation saves time, such as saying, "He bought many fruits, e.g. apples, oranges and pineapplies.
Do movies go in quotation marks?
Only short films go in quotation marks. Full-length films are italicized. Similarly, short story titles are put in quotation marks, while titles of full-length books are italicized.
Also, titles of TV shows are italicized, while episodes are put in quotation marks (for example, episode, "Humbug," of The X-files).
Neither of those options would be completely grammatically correct.
Two exclamation marks alone would be more appropriate.
Do you use quotation marks on store name?
Only if you are quoting it from someone's words or putting extreme emphasis on it... You should just capitalize it like every other proper noun.
Do you use a perorid or question mark to end a sentence that is a polite request?
It depends on whether you say or ask the request. If it's a question, then you put a question mark; if it's a statement, then you put a period.
Periods can go a lot of places, but mainly at the end of a statement. Ex: I went to the mall to shop for new clothes. (This is called a declarative sentence)
Question marks go at the end of sentences as well. Ex: Where did that paper go? (This is called an interrogatory sentence)
Another common type of punctuation is the exclamation point or mark, which always appear at the end of a sentence. Ex: That ice cream was splendid! (This is known as an exclamatory sentence)
Hope this helped!
Do you underline a movie title or do you put quotation marks?
You do whatever the style guide for the publication you're writing for says to do. However, probably the most common form for titles of works (such as movies) is to put it in italics. If you can't do that (because you're using a typewriter or something that doesn't do italics), the most common is to underline them. Quotation marks might be used if you could do neither of the above.
Is is plagiarism if you copy and paste something but you cite it and put it in quotation marks?
No, as long as you credit the source you have used and if it is a direct quote you have used quotation marks then it will not count as plagiarism even if you did copy and paste it.
Do you put quotation marks in front of the word she told me?
Yes, if your using a quote from her you do use quotation marks. Like this-I'll quote you. The question was "Do you put quotation marks in front of the word she told me?"
The phrase she told me is what in language we refer to a dialogue tag. It is introductory to a quote. For instance, in the example below:
She told me, "You are wasting your time waiting for Bob to propose to you."
Dialogue tags need not precede the quote. They can appear between any clauses in the quoted sentence. For instance:
"You," She told me, "are wasting your time waiting for Bob to propose to you."
"You are wasting your time," She told me,"waiting for Bob to propose to you."
"You are wasting your time waiting for Bob,"She told me, "to propose to you."
"You are wasting your time waiting for Bob to propose," She told me, "to you."
You'll notice that each placement of the dialogue tag tends to emphasize a different part of the quoted sentence, and can become awkward.
How do you put lieu in a sentence?
In lieu of going to the beach, Brenda and her friends decided to go to the movies.
How do you use quotation marks in a sentence?
Depends on how you mean.
"Go away!" Billy shouted at Tom.
OR
Sally was an utter failure at placing quaotation marks in sentences.
How many lines does a direct quote have to be to omit the quotation marks?
In most academic writing styles, a direct quote that exceeds four lines should be formatted as a block quote, which omits quotation marks. Instead, the quoted text is indented and presented as a separate paragraph. This format helps differentiate the quoted material from the rest of the text and emphasizes its significance. Always check specific style guidelines, as requirements may vary.
Should a question mark be inside bracket or outside?
Inside if the sentence inside the brackets is a question.
What are sysnoms for Parentheses?
These are from thesaurus.com under the word parenthesis:
apostrophe, aside, deflection, departure, detour, deviation, difference, discursion, divagation, divergence, divergency, diversion, drifting, episode, excursion, excursus, footnote, incident, irrelevancy, note, obiter dictum, rambling, tangent, variation, wandering
Where do you put an astrix when there is quotation marks?
questions asked are always to be followed with a mark of question (?)
hence if an astrix is to be placed then it has to come after the question mark.
if the astrix is part of the question then it has to be placed before the question mark
Do you have to put a period after a apostrophe?
no matter what you usually have to put a period after an apostrophe because it's the end of a sentence.
