引号 Quotation Marks
引号通常是一对（“ ”）出现的，跟圆括号（Parentheses）和括号（Brackets）一样。
用法如下：
１）表示对话内容
２）标记题目
３）令人注意某些字句
４）引述某人所提及的确切字句
１）表示对话内容：
例子：
“I don't know how you can see to drive,” she said.
“Maybe you should put on your glasses.”
“Putting on my glasses would help you to see?”
“Not me; you,” Macon said. “You're focused on the windshield instead of the road.”
－Anne Tyler, The Accidental Tourist
２）标记题目：
例子：
I. Poem: “In My Black Book”
II. Song: “Piano Man”
III. Short Story: “The Cask of Amantillado”
IV. Essay in a book: “Every Child Can Be Beautiful” (from Marjorie Holmes’s As Tall as My Heart)
V. Chapter in a book: “The Journey from Platform Nine and Three-quarters” (from J K Rowling's Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)
VI. Article in a magazine: “Anybody's Child” (from Esquire)
VII. Television/radio program:“Dateline” (from NBC News)“Spinning on Air” (from WNYC Radio)
句例：
i) Discuss the rhyme scheme of Lucinda Roy's “African Village Women.”
ii) Have you read “The Cask of Amantillado”?
iii) One of the best sources I found is “Anybody's Child.”
３）令人注意某些字句：
例子：
i) The proposed tax “reform” is actually a tax increase.
ii) Many people confuse “affect” and “effect.”
iii) He was a “good” child: he never cried, never took his toys apart, never got dirty.
４）引述某人所提及的确切字句：
用于短引述句 short quotation，例子如下：
Cicero, the great Roman orator, said this about fidelity: “Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences of the human mind.”
注意：
１）句号及逗号都放在引号之内。
例子：
She said, “You have to come back before 10pm.”
“You have to come back before 10pm,” she said.
２）分号，冒号，破折号都放在引号之外。
例子：
i) John was impressed by the wisdom of the article “Don’t Put Your Money into the Stock Market”; nevertheless, he keeps buying stocks.
ii) You have to photocopy the following articles as soon as you have finished reading “To the Light House”:
iii) He insisted over and over again, “I'm pure Indian; I'm pure Indian”－what a joke!
３）如果问号及感叹号是引述资料的一部份，须放在引号以内，否则应放在引号外面。
例子：
i) “Will she really come to our Halloween party?” he asked.
但是，
ii) Who originally made the statement “Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely”?
iii) “New York! What a fascinating city!” she exclaimed.
但是，
iv) If only I could have foreseen the tragic consequences of my suggestion that she read Sylvia Plath’s “I Thought That I Could Not Be Hurt”!
４）如果引述句中再有引述资料，则可在双引号内使用单引号。
例子：
My teacher asked me, “Have you ever read ‘The Perfume’?”
省略号 Ellipsis
１） 如果在引述资料中，有某些字须要省去，可使用省略号表示。例子：
原引述内容：
The York record shows that infant mortality (in the first three weeks of life) was indeed higher in some months than in others, but oddly enough the mortality rate was particularly high in seasons of high birthrate.
Ursula M Cowgill, “The People of York: 1538-1812”
省略后：
The York record shows that infant mortality...was indeed higher in some months than in others, but oddly enough the mortality rate was particularly high in seasons of high birthrate.
注意：
１）若果省略部份是在开端或结尾时，则无须加上省略号。
２） 如果引述部份是句子的结尾，但引述部份并不是原来引述句子的结束时，便须用省略号。情形如下：
i)如果省略号之后没有用括号，则在结尾时用
句号＋省略号＋引号
Simmer says people have described personal space as “a snail, a soap bubble, an aura....”
ii) 如果省略号之后有用括号，则在结尾时用
省略号＋引号＋括号＋句号
Simmer says people have described personal space as “a snail, a soap bubble, an aura...” (26). * 26是指资料所在的页码。
在讲话中，省略号可表达说话中断的意思。
例子：“And, anyway, what do you know of him?”
“Nothing. That is why I ask you...”“I would prefer never to speak of him.”
