Quote Inside A Quote

Double space the entire block quotation.

Quote inside a quote. Or you could do it this way which gets a bit dizzying. In memories of west street and lepke robert lowell a conscientious objector or co recounts meeting a jehovahs witness in prison. Single quotation marks are used for a quotation within a quotation. This alternating between doubles and singles would go on as far as the nested quotations go.

The quote within the quote do unto others as you would have them do unto you is enclosed in single quotation marks. When you need to present a quotation within a quotation use double quotation marks around the quotation incorporated into your text and single quotation marks around the quotation within that quotation. And then from out of lennies head there came a little fat old woman. Do not add extra space before or after it.

The inside quote is a price that is not publicly displayed but that is inside the order book quotes. Double quotation marks are used for the first quotation. Your quotation would be correct as is if you indented it to let the reader know that you are quoting from the book. What lies behind you and what lies in front of you pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

The main quote would use single quotation marks and the quote within the quote would use double quotation marks. If there are additional paragraphs within the quotation indent the first line of each subsequent paragraph an additional 05 in. Capitalization of the quoted material depends on the material itself if youre quoting a complete sentence you should start the quote with a capital letter even if the quote is placed in the middle of a sentence. Are you a c.

For quotations inside quotations inside quotations alternate using single and double quotation marks. Start a block quotation on a new line and indent the whole block 05 in. The british convention is the opposite. In ame the outermost quotation mark is a double.

One level of nesting the most common reason for nesting punctuation is shown in section 137 of the mla handbook p. Bobbi said i read an interesting article titled a poor womans journey. For example an inside bid is higher than the order book bid and the inside offer is lower than. Explore 1000 inside quotes by authors including ralph waldo emerson carl jung and deepak chopra at brainyquote.

So for dialogue the spoken text opens and closes with double quotation marks. As a courtesy make sure there is visible space at the start or end of a quotation between adjacent single and double quotation marks. The american rule is that periods always go inside all quotation marks. From the left margin.