. Quotation marks should be used to enclose a direct, but not an
indirect, quotation.=

Right: "I am thirsty," he said.

Wrong: He said "that he was thirsty."

Right: He said that he was thirsty.

=b. A quotation of several paragraphs should have quotation marks at the
beginning of each paragraph and at the end of the last paragraph.=

=c. In narrative each separate speech, however short, should be enclosed
within quotation marks=; but a single speech of several sentences should
have only one set of quotation marks.

Wrong: "Will you come? she pleaded.

Certainly."

Right: "Will you come," she pleaded.

"Certainly."

Wrong: He replied, "It was not for my own sake that I did
this." "There were others whom I had to consider." "I can
mention no names."

Right: He replied, "It was not for my own sake that I did this.
There were others whom I had to consider. I can mention no
names."

=d. Quotation marks may be used with technical terms, with slang
introduced into formal writing, or with nicknames=; but not with merely
elevated diction, with good English that resembles slang, with nicknames
that have practically become proper names, or with fictitious names from
literature.

Permissible: The rime is called a "feminine rime". He is really
"a corker". Their name for my friend was "Sissy".

Better without the quotation marks: He was awed by "the
grandeur of the mountains". "A humbug". "Fetch". "Stonewall"
Jackson. He was a true "Rip Van Winkle".

=e. Either quotation marks or italics may be used with words to which
special attention is called.= (See the examples under 91e, Exception, 3.)
Quotation marks are used with the titles of articles, of chapters in
books, of individual short poems, and the like. Italics are used with
the titles of books or of periodicals, with the names of ships, and with
foreign words which are still felt to be emphatically foreign.

=f. A quotation within a quotation should be enclosed in single quotation
marks; a quotation within that, in double marks.=

Right: "It required courage," the speaker said, "for a man to
affirm in those days: 'I endorse every word of Patrick Henry's
sentiment, "Give me liberty, or give me death!"'"

=g. When a word is followed by both a quotation mark and a question mark
or an exclamation point, the question mark or the exclamation point
should co