Placed around words referred to as words, such as: I said “tomato,” not “potato.”; and around sentences referred to as sentences, as in: An example of a question is, “Where the heck are they?
• Quotations may be used around mottos, slang, misnomers, coined words, proverbs and maxims, ironical reference, and unspoken dialogue. • Used for translations of foreign terms. • Used for single letters within a sentence, e.g., His name begins with a “K.” • Sometimes used to enclose document titles and parts, and addresses within a sentence, e.g.: Her book, “14,000 Things to be Happy About,” is a best seller. • In American usage, punctuation that goes inside the closing quotation mark includes a period or comma (but not a colon or semicolon). In British usage, the period and the comma go outside the quotation mark. The dash, question mark, and exclamation point fall inside quotation marks if they belong with the quoted matter but outside if they punctuate the sentence as a whole. • For quotations which extend beyond one paragraph, a quotation mark begins each paragraph and the closing quotation mark is at the end of the last paragraph. • Some writers now leave a preceding comma out be
