34e Avoid common misuses of quotation marks.
Do not use quotation marks to draw attention to familiar slang, to disown trite expressions, or to justify an attempt at humor.
Do not use quotation marks around the title of your own essay.
Exercise 34–1
Add or delete quotation marks as needed and make any other necessary changes in punctuation in the following sentences. If a sentence is correct, write “correct” after it. Answers appear in the back of the book.
As for the advertisement “Sailors have more fun”, if you consider chipping paint and swabbing decks fun, then you will have plenty of it.
Even after forty minutes of discussion, our class could not agree on an interpretation of Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken.”
After winning the lottery, Juanita said that “she would give half the money to charity.”
After the movie, Vicki said, “The reviewer called this flick “trash of the first order.” I guess you can’t believe everything you read.”
“Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing,” said Phyllis Diller, “is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.”