Quotation Marks

• "I hope you will be here," he said.

• Incorrect: He said that he "hoped I would be there." (The quotation marks are incorrect because hoped I would be there does not state the speaker's exact words.)

• Lamarr said, "The case is far from over, and we will win."

• Lamarr said that the case was "far from over" and that "we will win."

• He said, "I don't care."

• "Why," I asked, "don't you care?"

• "I don't care," he said.

• "Stop," he said.

• Is "I don't care" all you can say to me?

• Saying "Stop the car" was a mistake.

• The sign said, "Walk." Then it said, "Don't Walk," then, "Walk," all within thirty seconds. He yelled, "Hurry up."

• Rule 5a. The placement of question marks with quotation marks follows logic. If a question is within the quoted material, a question mark should be placed inside the quotation marks.

• Dan said: "In a town outside Brisbane, I saw 'Tourists go home' written on a wall. But then someone told me, 'Pay it no mind, lad.' "

Examples:

• It's an oil-extraction method known as "fracking."

• He did some "experimenting" in his college days.