expect to
catch sight of a squirrel."

Right: "We must be quiet", said the old man, "if we expect to
catch sight of a squirrel."

=i. An omission from a quotation is indicated by dots.=

Right: "When a word is followed by both a quotation mark and
... an exclamation point, ... the exclamation point should come
... last, if it applies to the main sentence." [Abridged
citation of g above.]

=j. Do not use superfluous quotation marks:=

1. Around the title at the head of a theme (unless it is a quoted
title);

2. As a label for humor or irony.

Superfluous: The "abstemious" Mr. Crew ate an enormous dinner.

Better: The abstemious Mr. Crew ate an enormous dinner.

Exercise:

1. Carew says, "that the profit comes from selling
knickknacks."

2. What's the matter with that horse? asked Williams. He's as
frisky as if he had been shut up a week.

3. "Who's your favorite character in the play?, persisted
Laura. Is it "Brutus"? No, answered Howard; I admire his wife
"Portia".

4. "It's amazing, said Mrs. Phelps, how children love
playthings. Helen Locke said yesterday, Hughie always tells me
when I am putting him to bed, I want my Teddy bear".

5. "You see, said Daugherty, the two offices across the
corridor from each ether." "One is the county clerk's." "The
other is the county collector's."

=The Apostrophe=

=97a. In contracted words place the apostrophe where letters are omitted,
and do not place it elsewhere.=

Wrong: does'nt, theyr'e, oclock.

Right: doesn't, they're, o'clock.

=b. To form the possessive of a noun, singular or plural, that does not
end in _s_, add '_s_.=

Right: A hunter's gun, children's games, the cannon's mouth.

=c. To form the possessive of a noun, singular or plural, that ends in
_s_, place an apostrophe after (not before) the _s_ if there is no new
syllable in pronunciation. If there is a new syllable in pronunciation,
add _'s_.=

Wrong: Moses's mandates, Keat's poems, Dicken's novels, those
hunter's guns.

Right: Moses' mandates, Keats's poems (or Keats' poems),
Dickens' (or Dickens's) novels, those hunters' guns.

=d. Do not use an apostrophe with the possessive adjectives _its_, _his_,
_hers_, _ours_, _yours_, and _theirs_. But _one's_, _other's_,
_either's_ take the apostrophe.=

=e. Add _'s_ to form the plural o