Using examples from a source text correctly in your critical essay is important for supporting your points. Learn how to punctuate quotations in an essay with BBC Bitesize 3rd level English.

Direct quotations require double quotation marks (“…”). One set is placed at the beginning of a quoted sentence or paragraph, and the other is placed at the end. Examples: Walter said, “It’s time to ...

Add those up and you get: apostrophe, period, single quotation mark, double quotation mark. In our choices above, the first example was the right one.

I've gotten a lot of emails recently about where to put periods and commas relative to quotation marks.