1. stands for direct speech. When directly quoting more than four lines or more than 40 words, quotation marks are generally not used, but changed to bold, so as to make the boundary with other parts of the article clear.
"Well," the foreigner said to him, "you look like an engineer."
Periods and commas must be enclosed in quotation marks (double quotation marks and single quotation marks).
He told the gunman, "I refuse to do that"; However, when he said these words, his knees were shaking.
She calls this activity schedule her "load": work, study, exercise, entertainment and sleep.
Colons and semicolons must be enclosed in quotation marks.
The teacher asked, "Can you understand me"?
Did the teacher ask "Are they gone?"?
Did the teacher ask, "Are they gone?"
The frightened girl screamed, "Help"!
The guy just said, "I'm sorry!" " He interrupted me, "Now, listen"-go on.
Question marks, exclamation points and dashes are sometimes placed inside quotation marks and sometimes outside nicknames. If the quoted content itself is a question or an exclamatory sentence or has a dash, the question mark, exclamation point or dash are generally put in quotation marks. Otherwise, put it outside quotation marks.
2. Indicate the titles of short publications, such as magazines, newspaper articles, short poems, short stories and a chapter of the whole book.
Have you read The Old Man and the Sea?
The third chapter is entitled "Internet"
3. The words used have special meanings. In addition, when slang appears in more formal articles, it will also be quoted, indicating that it intends to change the style of writing.
The report contains the facts of the case.
The speaker owns a "weight loss farm" in California, which costs $2,500 a week to lose weight for the gluttonous rich.
4. Used to express words that attract readers' attention or special words that readers are not familiar with.
Whenever someone says "thank you", it is customary to say "welcome"
"SOS" is a distress signal sent by a ship or plane when it is in danger.
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