Practice with quotation marks

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Practice with quotation marks

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Use quotation marks to punctuate the following
correctly

• 1. For several weeks in 2009, the Black Eyed
  Peas held the top two spots on the music charts
  with their songs I Gotta Feeling and Boom Boom
  Pow.
• 2. Last week we read A Modest Proposal, an essay
  by Jonathan Swift.
• 3. Last week we read A Modest Proposal this
  week we're reading Shirley Jackson's short story
  The Lottery.
• 4. In a famous New Yorker essay in October 1998,
  Toni Morrison referred to Bill Clinton as our
  first black president.
• 5. Bonnie asked, Are you going to the concert
  without me?
• 6. Bonnie asked if we were going to the concert
  without her.

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• 7. In the words of comedian Steve Martin,
  Talking about music is like dancing about
  architecture.
• 8. The indie folk band Deer Tick sang What Kind
  of Fool Am I?
• 9. Was it Dylan Thomas who wrote the poem Fern
  Hill?
• 10. Uncle Gus said, I heard your mother singing
  Tutti Frutti out behind the barn at three o'clock
  in the morning.
• 11. I've memorized several poems, Merdine said,
  including The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost.
• 12. All our failures, wrote Iris Murdoch, are
  ultimately failures in love.