How To Punctuate A Quote

If the dialogue tag is inserted in the middle of a sentence, use a comma before the first closing quotation mark and after the dialogue tag. In a quotation it’s important to make sure you use the exact words from the original text. Quotation marks should be at the end and beginning of the poetry lines.

(this rule makes sense too, don’t you think?) to sum up the rules on question marks: Quotation marks show your reader when a character is speaking and they separate speech from the rest of the text. If the entire sentence is a question, put the question mark outside the quotation marks.

Separating quotes from text where quoted material is part of a longer sentence, it’s often separated from the text using commas:

Quotation marks show your reader when a character is speaking and they separate speech from the rest of the text. Quotation marks should be at the end and beginning of the poetry lines. In a sentence with an interrupted quotation, the comma is inside the quotation marks for the first half of a quotation. Quotation marks are used in pairs;