PR-0794UK Proofreading and Editing - Upper
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Quotation marks<br />
Quotation marks are used:<br />
Teacher information<br />
• to enclose quoted speech<br />
Single or double quotation marks are accepted but must be used consistently.<br />
‘You’re late again’, my mother complained.<br />
“I’m sorry”, I replied.<br />
• To enclose quotes within quotes, one set is used outside <strong>and</strong> the other inside.<br />
He reported, ‘My mother complained, “Late again, John”’.<br />
• To cite a title (Note: In word processing, italics is preferred.).<br />
I read the book ‘Black Beauty’.<br />
Colons<br />
A colon is a marker of relationship <strong>and</strong> sequence. Colons are used:<br />
• before offset lists<br />
You need to take:<br />
warm socks,<br />
sturdy walking shoes,<br />
a raincoat.<br />
• between a statement <strong>and</strong> explanation<br />
I remember you: we went to the same school.<br />
• with quotations<br />
Malcolm Fraser said: ‘Life wasn’t meant to be easy’.<br />
Parentheses (round brackets)<br />
The main use of parentheses is to enclose explanations <strong>and</strong> asides.<br />
Parentheses are used to:<br />
• add explanatory words<br />
Ian Thorpe (Australia) is a champion swimmer.<br />
• express the same thing in a different way<br />
He ran 6 km (kilometres).<br />
• set-off an aside<br />
He won the race in record (yet to be confirmed) time.<br />
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Hyphens<br />
Hyphens are short strokes (without a space on either side) used to join words or parts of<br />
words.<br />
ice-cream<br />
pre-existing<br />
Note: Pupils should be encouraged to refer to a modern dictionary to check for current hyphenation,<br />
as it changes over time in response to common use.<br />
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