Question Marks with Dialogue and Quotations
Question Marks with Dialogue and Quotations
Question Marks in Dialogue and Quotations
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Common Core Language Standard 2
The question mark usually is one of the easiest punctuation marks to use properly–unless the question mark is used with quotations. Then, things get a bit trickier. Do we place the question mark inside or outside of the quotation marks?
Now let’s read the mechanics lesson and study the examples.
Place a question mark inside (to the left of) ending quotation marks (?”) when you, the writer, are quoting a question that was asked. Example: He asked, “Are you going, too?”
Place a question mark outside (to the right of) ending quotation marks (”?) when you, the writer, ask a question about a quotation. Example: Why did he say, “That’s not funny”?
Now circle or highlight what is right and revise what is wrong according to mechanics lesson.
Practice: Did she say, “I didn’t do it”? Or did she ask “Who did it”?
Let’s check the Practice Answers.
Mechanics Practice Answers: Did she say, “I didn’t do it”? Or did she ask “Who did it?”
Now let’s apply what we have learned.
Writing Application: Write two or your own sentences: the first one with a quote of a make-believe question that was asked and the second one with a question that you ask about a make-believe quotation.
This writing opener is part of a comprehensive language conventions lesson from the Grammar, Mechanics, Spelling, and Vocabulary Grades 4‒8 programs.
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