How To Punctuate Dialogue Within A Quote. Lawson] called out the name [gogol] in a perfectly reasonable way, without pause, without doubt, without a suppressed smile, just as he had called out brian and erica and tom. In ame, the outermost quotation mark is a double.
“kelly says, ‘for a quote within a quote, you use single quotation marks,'” said angela. A final comma should always be before the final enclosing quote mark to separate the quote from the dialogue tag that identifies the speaker. ?) inside the quotation marks.
If you are incorporating a quotation featuring both exposition and a character’s speech into your text, use double quotation marks around the quotation and single quotation marks around the character’s speech that is within the quotation:
I said, “the fable by james thurber will surprise you.” Do not use quotation marks to set off an indirect quotation. If you are incorporating a quotation featuring both exposition and a character’s speech into your text, use double quotation marks around the quotation and single quotation marks around the character’s speech that is within the quotation: So for dialogue, the spoken text opens and closes with double quotation marks.