JUST THEN BECKY HIT HER TRADEMARK FROZEN ROPE TO LEFT FIELD.EMBEDDI...

20.Just then Becky hit her trademark frozen rope to left field.

Embedding One Quotation inside Another

You had to ask. Sigh. Embedded quotations don’t turn up very frequently, but whenthey do, you must pay close attention. Here’s the deal: The embedded quotation isenclosed in single quotation marks (‘ ’), and the surrounding quotation is placed inthe usual double quotation marks (“ ”). So far, so good. The problem comes when thissort of situation requires other punctuation, and it pretty much always does. Followthese guidelines:⻬If the embedded quotation is at the end of the larger quotation, the two clos-ing quotation marks are next to each other, with the single mark first. Anycommas or periods you need go inside both closing marks. “I hate the term‘frozen rope,’” said Sharon. Question marks and exclamation points follow therule of logic: If the internal quotation is a question or an exclamation, place the ?or the !inside the single closing mark. If the internal quotation isn’t a question oran exclamation but the larger quotation is, place the ?or the !outside the singleclosing mark but inside the double closing mark (simply put, in between them).⻬If the embedded quotation is at the beginning or in the middle of the largerquotation, any commas surrounding it follow the rules described in the previoussection. In other words, commas that precede the embedded quotation go infront of the opening double quotation mark. Commas that follow the embeddedquotation go inside the closing single quotation mark. Sharon exclaimed, “‘Afrozen rope’ is what she hit!” and “When Sharon started talking about ‘a frozenrope,’ I cheered,” said Harry, who is supposed to be neutral.The rules in this chapter follow American-style English. In Britain, single and doublequotation marks are called inverted commas,and they’re reversed. If you’re in London(lucky you! I love London!), you may want to write a single quotation mark whereverI’ve placed a double, and a double wherever I’ve plopped a single.Can you place the quotation marks and other punctuation in the right places in thesesentences? Write the appropriate punctuation marks in the appropriate spots. Somehelpful information is in parentheses at the end of the sentence.

Q.

I think that I shall never see a summer’s romance more lovely and more temperateintoned Richard, who believes that quoting Shakespeare is the best way to impresswomen. (The embedded quotation is more lovely and more temperate.)

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“I think that I shall never see a summer’s romance ‘more lovely and more temperate‚’”intoned Richard, who believes that quoting Shakespeare is the best way to impresswomen. Notice that the comma after temperategoes inside both closing quotation marks,the single and the double.