quotation marks

Question

Hi how do I put quotations in a conversation for a story I'm writing.In the story I'm telling people about about a conversation that happened so its sort of like a conversation within a conversation and I don't know how to correctly use quotation marks for it.Anyone know how to do this?

Answer 1

In books I have seen them put regular quotation marks " " on the outside and apostrophes ' ' on the inside.  I can make up an example:

 

Bob told Joe what he heard Tim say at the meeting.  "Joe, I listened to Tim talk.  He said 'Our project is behind schedule and we need to pick up the pace.'  Pay attention Joe, things are not going well."

 

 

 

Does this "example" help?