Question

Last week, Brian wrote the fall of the house of usher before his shift at the sing shop. Which sentence revision uses quotation marks correctly?

1) "Last week, Brian wrote 'the fall of the house of usher' before his shift at the sing shop."
2) "Last week, Brian wrote the fall of the house of usher before his shift at the sing shop."
3) "Last week, Brian wrote the fall of the house of usher before his shift at the sing shop."

Answer 1

The correct revised sentence that uses quotation marks properly is: "Last week, Brian wrote 'The Fall of the House of Usher' before his shift at the sign shop."

Step-by-step explanation:

The student is asking which sentence revision correctly uses quotation marks for the title of the Edgar Allan Poe story, "The Fall of the House of Usher." The correct way to use quotation marks for the title of a short story in a sentence is to encase the title within quotation marks. Therefore, the revised sentence that correctly uses quotation marks would be: "Last week, Brian wrote 'The Fall of the House of Usher' before his shift at the sign shop."

This revision clearly delineates the title of the work from the rest of the sentence. It is also important to correct the typo from "sing shop" to "sign shop" and capitalize the first letter of each significant word in the story's title for proper noun capitalization, as well as place the period inside the quotation marks at the end of the sentence.