Using quotation marks in titles | Punctuation | Khan Academy Video Lecture | Complete Course on English Grammar: Upgrade your Speaking & Listening - Personal Skills

hello grammarians hello page I'd even so
today we're going to be talking about
quotation marks what are they and what
do they do
Paige Finch we use quotation marks to
indicate when someone is speaking right
so if we're writing dialogue we can say
I like strawberry jam said lady
Buffington so that's one use of
quotation marks which is two to quote
direct dialogue or to quote from a
broader work we can also use quotation
marks for the titles of things so Paige
if you remember you can use underlines
or italics to indicate the title of
something big like like a book of poetry
or an album of songs or a movie or a
television show yeah so Paige for
instance one of my favorite albums is
gentle giants 1975 album free hand okay
but that's with italics with italics or
an underlined in this case since I'm
writing it by hand but track two on that
record is calm on reflection okay so we
put quotes around each individual song
on the album right so this is this is
the album and this is a single song on
it page let's say you and Jake wrote a
book of bread poetry okay yes right that
is something I would do and he called it
the yeast I can do that is it great
title thank you right so underline it to
indicate that that's the full title so
this is the book and then this book is
made up of individual poems so let's say
you wrote a poem in the book called
why do you love me
sure why not so that's in quotes and
that indicates that this is a single
work or a single poem okay also let me
know when that book is coming out
because I'll buy your book of poetry so
it's not just songs and poems right but
it's also magazine and newspaper
articles TV episodes really it's
anything that is smaller than a larger
work right it's something like inside of
a of a larger thing like a collection or
right yeah an album so you know like if
if you were writing for a magazine or a
newspaper that newspapers title you know
the Khan Academy times would be either
italicized or underlined hmm
but an article that you wrote for it you
know would would be in quotes I think
that about does it for a quotation marks
page yeah David yeah I think I thought
of a read poetry book name okay what is
it
loaves of grass yep yep yep that's
pretty good okay all right putting it in
there
that's quotation marks you can learn
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