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Exercise 7: Quotation Marks

Edit the following sentences placing quotation marks where they are appropriate. Then click the SUBMIT button to check your work.

  1. Ms. James announced, Starting in October we will be downsizing each department to no more than six workers.

  2. In the Second Coming of the American Small Town, that appeared in the Winter 1992 edition of the Wilson Quarterly, the author states, The town model of development [is] well suited to times of economic adversity.

  3. We should not forget the words of one of the greatest American Presidents, Ms. Graham exhorted. Theodore Roosevelt advised us to Speak softly and carry a big stick, and that's the way we should carry out our foreign policy.

  4. Be quiet! the teacher shouted. I want everyone to open her book and read the chapter entitled The Life and Times of a Chinese Dissident.