Parker gathered in Lexington, Massachusetts, a town near Boston. A militia is a force of armed civilians pledged to defend their community. About one-third of the Lexington militia were Minutemen, trained to âact at a minuteâs warning.â They had heard that the British were coming. Parkerâs troops had never faced soldiers. Soon they
Quotation marks would only have to be used on thoughts if the<br />thoughts were someone else's. If the thoughts came from a book, computer source, or some other source, then quotation marks should be used. However, the writer of the essay does not have to quote his or her <i>own</i> thoughts.
1 Quotation marks may also be used around a single word or group of words to indicate use of a borrowed word or phrase. 2  The reader is to understand that anything within quotations was spoken or written by someone other than the author of the work that contains it. A single word or a short phrase may be enclosed in quotation marks to indicate ironic use: Congressman, we know that to you, will always do the right thing. 2  Quotation marks may also be used around a single word or group of words to indicate use of a borrowed word or phrase.