Section A: Decide if each sentence uses quotation marks correctly or incorrectly.
Write Correct or Incorrect. Explain why a sentence is using the quotation marks incorrectly.
1. Mom said, ” I’ll pick you up after school.”
2. The teacher told us, “We have a test scheduled for tomorrow”.
3. We are reading the book “Frankenstein.”
4. I liked the short story “The Tell-tale Heart.”
5. It was a good “horror” story.
Answers:
1- correct
2- incorrect. The period should go inside the quotation mark.
3 – incorrect. Do not use quotation marks around the title of a book. A good title is italicized.
4- correct
5- correct