Quotation Marks

Quotation Marks NMU Writing Center quotation Direct Quotations · Quotation marks always come in pairs · Capitalize the first letter of a direct quote when the quoted material is a complete sentence · Do quotation quotation A quotation is a sentence or phrase taken from a book, poem, or play, which is repeated by someone else The quotation is from The Great Gatsby

quotation For quotations that are more than four lines of prose or three lines of verse, place quotations in a free-standing block of text and omit quotation marks Start