Margaret Atwood once remarked that 'fiction is not necessarily about what you know it’s about how you feel.'.Macdonald explained his involvement in politics this way: 'I don’t care for office for the sake of money, but for the sake of power, and for the sake of carrying out my own views of what is best for the country.'Ī comma or colon is not required when introducing a quotation with the word that. To introduce a longer quotation, a colon may be used after a complete sentence. He said 'Have a nice day,' fired a few shots, and ran.The comma can also be omitted if the quotation is introduced by verbs of saying: She asked us to 'rephrase the question to make it less offensive.'.Did you like the candidate’s answer to the question 'Why do you want to work for our company?'.What he actually said was 'Play it, Sam.'.The comma can be omitted if the quotation or question follows a form of the verb to be, is in apposition to a noun, or follows the natural flow of syntax in the sentence. Jennifer asked, 'Would you like to have dinner with me?'.A wise rabbi once said, 'Good deeds are better than wise sayings.'.Place a comma after words introducing short quotations. Punctuation before opening quotation marks The guidelines below explain how to combine other punctuation marks with opening and closing quotation marks. (A similar topic is discussed in French in the article PONCTUATION AVEC LES GUILLEMETS.)

Quotations: punctuation with quotation marks

How to introduce a quote