Homework Help Forum: English-Writing

Posted by Mike on Thursday, October 22, 2009 at 9:28pm.

Can someone tell me when you use both a double and single quote mark in an essay. We are writing an essay with quotes from a book, and in the example sometines it shows "'I had every reason to ...'" and other times it's just "I had every reason to believe..." It says single quote marks are for setting off a quotation within another quotation, so if you quote from a book do you use "'??

• English-Writing - Ms. Sue, Thursday, October 22, 2009 at 9:36pm

  Here's an example from the site linked below. "John Doe cited a sample done by Larry Jones that revealed 'ten percent of the air we breath is polluted.'" http://calstaging.bemidjistate.edu/en3160f01/writingremedies/MLAformatcitations.html

  
  

• English-Writing - Mike, Thursday, October 22, 2009 at 9:50pm

  Thank you for your help.

  
  

• English-Writing - Ms. Sue, Thursday, October 22, 2009 at 9:51pm

  You're welcome.

  
  

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