Maybe you’re writing a research paper, and you need to quote a source, or perhaps you’re writing an article about the Gettysburg Address, and you need to quote Abraham Lincoln, or maybe you’re writing an email to your bff about your date last night, and you need to quote what he said to you. In any of these cases, you need to use quotation marks (“ ”).
Quite simply put, you just surround the quoted text with quotation marks. Any words that are not your own original words should be inside the quotation marks. “Four score and seven years ago...”Generally speaking, however, when you use a quote, you will put it into some sort of context so it’s not standing all alone. If this is the case (and it usually is), then we need to talk about punctuation.
