T ITLES IN Q UOTATION M ARKS Shorter written works—songs, short poems, stories, articles, chapters, and the like— are capitalized in the same way book titles are, but they are set off in quotation marks rather than being underlined or italicized Every Move You Make Ode on a Grecian Urn The End of History The Middle Years.” Titles set o in quotes have commas and periods within the quotes if that punctuation ends a clause or the sentence: I was singing, Every Move You Make If the title itself ends with a puncutation mark (exclamation point or question mark), then no punctuation follows the quotes that end the title, even at the end of a sentence The actor recited A Call to Arms ” If the sentence ends with a question mark or exclamation point that is not part of the title, that punctuation goes outside the quotes Were you singing Every Move You Make Colons, semicolons, and parentheses that are not parts of titles go outside quotes surrounding titles The actor recited Ode on a Grecian Urn that was followed by Memory (a major Russian work finally came The Raven Did you hear all that?” To, too, two. Don’t confuse these words that soundalike but are spelled di erently (homonyms) and have different meanings. TO The preposition to suggests motion toward or attribution to something I went to Denver and gave a speech to an association To also appears in verb infinitives: “To err is human.” TOO . Too is an adverb that intensi es words or adds things That is too dark for
this room. It is big, too See intensifier. TWO . The number two (2) is always just that Look, two eagles. That is too exciting not to report to the rest of the group.”