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Apostrophe with comma and single quotation mark: Take our Jed sentence above and put it at the end of a clause and you get three punctuation marks in a row: “Jed said, ‘I’m walkin ...
Quotation marks in flux: Samuel Richardson’s 1748 edition of Clarissa opens quotations with a single inverted comma, places an additional inverted comma at the start of each following line, and ...
The brainchild of Northern California education booster Jeff Rubin, the annual event aims to help kids learn about periods, commas, quotation marks and the rest. If only it were turning 60.
For the record, I didn’t say this, but I have a friend (let’s call him “Byron”) who thinks the moon landings are a hoax. Byron uses ironic and sarcastic quotation marks all the time when referring to ...
Here at Co.Design, we’re not exactly fastidious for using typographically correct quotation marks, or apostrophes for that matter. Which, if you think about it, is kind of the point.
Take the shape of quotation marks. These humble symbols are a dagger in my eye when a straight, or typewriter-style, pair appears in the midst of what is often otherwise typographic beauty.
Quotation marks are used “to surround the exact words of a speaker or writer when reported in a story,” or, in this case, a headline. Skip to Article. Set weather. Back To Main Menu Close.
The Associated Press Stylebook says: “The question mark supersedes the comma that normally is used when supplying attribution for a quotation: ‘Who is there?’ she asked.” Here comes one of the “buts.” ...