Question

Which is correct?
Mary is known to her friends as "Mare," spends her free time drawing.

Mary known to her friends as Mare, spends her free time drawing.

Answer 1

Are you sure these are copied correctly? Because neither of these would be correct as is

Answer 2

No I just typed them, why are they incorrect? I'm just wondering about quotation marks around nicknames.

Answer 3

Well the comma wouldn't be needed but the real sentence I was using does need a comma.

Answer 4

I could be wrong, but I think it's a sort of mix of them both. "Mary, known to her friends as Mare, spends her free time drawing."

I think the reason it wouldn't have quotations around it is because of the fact that Mare isn't in the middle of a name. Ex: Mary "Mare" Smith