English quotation marks?

Question

Which sentence has the correct quotation marks?
1. "Some laws," he intoned, "are made to be broken."
2. "Put those books ont he shelves, she said, Or we'll never be able to locate them again."
3. The title of the first chapter in the new science book is "Introduction to the Planet Earth.
4. Her short story, "The Last Day of Spring", won first prize.

Answer 1

Sentence 1 is correct.

Sentence 2 is missing quotation marks after the first comma as well as after the second comma. 'Or' is also incorrectly capitalized.

Sentence 3 is missing a comma before the first quotation mark and quotation marks following the period.

Sentence 4 contains all of the proper quotation marks, but the second comma should be inside, rather than outside of them.

The answer below indicates that sentence 3 should not receive a comma before the quotation marks because they do not indicate a direct quote. If this is true, then sentence 4 is still incorrect due to the fact that it has a comma before quotations that are not a direct quote. As before, sentence 1 is the only completely correct sentence.

Hope this helps!

Answer 2

1 & 4

#4 is also correct because in 99% of English sentences, the commas do go inside. The 1% is when you are writing a short piece of fiction (like a short story, poem or song title).

...and #3 does not get a comma before "Introduction..." because it is not a direct quote.

Answer 3

1&4

Answer 4

Sentence # 1.