How would I correct the following sentence, I don't know if I have to put quotes for the poem or the movie: As I was reading Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, I noticed parallels between it and the movie Finding Nemo.
The title of a poem is in quotation marks.
"Crossing Brooklyn Ferry,"
The title of a movie is italicized.
Finding Nemo.
Is this correct and if so does it sound alright because I think I could make it sound better, but I'm not sure. As I was reading “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry,” I noticed parallels between it and the movie Finding Nemo.
It sounds good to me.
k thanks sorry, she's a stickler on grammar haha
You're welcome.
To correct the sentence, you need to use quotation marks to indicate the titles of both the poem and the movie. Here's the corrected sentence:
"As I was reading 'Crossing Brooklyn Ferry,' I noticed parallels between it and the movie 'Finding Nemo.'"
To determine when to use quotation marks for titles, there are general rules you can follow:
1. For shorter works such as poems, articles, or short stories, use quotation marks. For example: "The Road Not Taken," "The New York Times," "The Lottery."
2. For longer works such as books, movies, plays, or albums, use italics or underline. For example: The Great Gatsby, Casablanca, Hamlet, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
Since we don't have the option to use italics or underline in regular text, we use quotation marks to indicate titles in written form.