STANDARD IV: The student will use correct capitalization and punctuation.

STANDARD IV: The student will use correct capitalization and punctuation. Objective 4 Demonstrate correct use of quotation marks and underlining

Quotation Marks • Use quotation marks to enclose a direct quotation – a person’s exact words. • Mr. Hayes shouted, “Look out!” • His barber said, “I don’t have time today.” • “This ice cream,” he exclaimed, “is spoiled!” • “Do you want some ice cream?” Willie asked. • Do not use quotation marks with indirect quotes. • His barber said that he didn’t have time today. • The weatherman reported that we will have thirty percent chance of rain tomorrow.

Quotation Marks • Use quotation marks to enclose titles of chapters, articles, other parts of books or magazines, newspaper columns, poems, short stories, and songs. • Have you read the poem “Birches?” • They like to sing “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot.” • The chapter “Using Pronouns Correctly” was not difficult. • “The Interlopers” is not a long short story. • “Dear Abby” is an advise column in the newspaper.

Underlining • Use underlining for titles of books, periodicals, newspapers, television program, magazine, movie, play, works of art, and ships. • Life was an interesting magazine. • We read the novel Of Mice and Men last year. • Have you studied the play Julius Caesar yet? • The movie Bruce Almighty was funny. • On television, we watch NCIS every Tuesday night.

1. Choose the sentence in which quotation marks are used correctly. • “Do you like to walk on the beach?” asked Beth. • “I enjoy both activities very much, answered Nancy.” • Carol asked “whether she preferred swimming or sunning.” • Laura reported “that she always enjoyed spending several days at the beach.”

2.Choose the sentence in which underlining is used correctly. • Listening to Jim Chappell play the song Lullaby will quiet even the most active person. • The poem Requiem by Robert Louis Stevenson contains the epitaph he chose for himself. • The best known of the novels by James Fenimore Cooper is The Last of the Mohicans. • Grandfather’s Old Ram is a chapter from one of his books that Mark Twain frequently used in platform reading.

3. Choose the sentence that is written correctly. • Chapter 14, The Playground, brings the plot to a climax. • Our teacher assigned the short story TonioKroeger for us to read by Friday. • Gloria wanted to read In the Red Pines, a poem about redwood trees written by a naturalist. • It was almost time for their favorite television program, The Simons of Barclay Lane, which the Tumarelli family watched every Friday.

Choose the sentence that is punctuated correctly. • “Sarah,” asked Mr. Lopez, have you found your dog? • “Sarah,” asked Mr. Lopez, “have you found your dog?” • “Sarah, asked Mr. Lopez, have you found your dog?” • Sarah, asked Mr. Lopez, “have you found your dog?”

5. Choose the sentence that contains an error in the use of quotation marks. • We subscribe to “Time” and “Scientific American.” • I enjoy L. M. Boyd’s “Grab Bag” column in Sunday’s newspaper. • Alice Adam’s short story “Tide Pools” appeared in The New Yorker, December 16, 1985. • I was reading Chapter 3, “Sunday at the Museum,” when I realized who the murderer had to be.

6. Choose the sentence in which the underlining is used incorrectly. • His favorite motion picture is Gone With the Wind. • I am reading Timebends, the autobiography of Arthur Miller. • She read us a Dorothy Parker poem called The Satin Dress. • My report is on Franny and Zooey, theJ. D. Salinger novel.

Choose the sentence in which underlining is used correctly. • Did you ever read the poem Tiger, Tiger? • Sara reads the short story The Gift of the Magi every year. • The magazine Science Fiction Favorites appears on the newsstand every month. • When I finished Retelling the Story which is the last chapter in the book, I cried.

Choose the sentence in which quotation marks are used correctly. • The class “read the poem Is My Team Ploughing?” by A.E. Houseman. • The class read the poem “Is My Team Ploughing?” by A.E. Houseman. • The class “read the poem is My “Team Ploughing?” by A.E. Houseman. • The class read the poem Is My Team Ploughing?” by “A.E. Houseman.

Choose the sentence in which quotation marks are used correctly. • “Today is very warm, Laura said. In fact, it is warm enough for a swim.” • “Today is very warm, Laura said. “In fact, it is warm enough for a swim. • “Today is very warm, Laura said. “In fact, it is warm enough for a swim.” • “Today is very warm,” Laura said. “In fact, it is warm enough for a swim.”

Choose the sentence in which quotation marks are used correctly. • “In the middle of the rainstorm,” Ben said. “the lights went out.” • Sharon read the book “The Incredible Journey” and gave a report to the class. • My mother said that “it’s best to study when you aren’t tired.” and I believe that is true. • There’s no sense in saying, “I told you so because you might think I’m being mean to you.”

Choose the sentence in which underlining is used correctly. • For national news, The Wall Street Journal is a reliable newspaper to read. • Tomorrow’s assignment is Chapter 11, The Aftermath of the Civil War. • My brother reads about four poems a day; today he read The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. • Short stories are my favorite form of literature, and I particularly liked The Lottery by Shirley Jackson.

Answer • A • C • D • B • A • C • C • B • D • A • A

STANDARD IV: The student will use correct capitalization and punctuation.