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There are plenty of situations in which one punctuation mark comes immediately after another and both of them have to learn to coexist.
Learn how to properly use quotation marks when writing academic papers with this Academic Resource Center guide.
Another annoying journalistic tic: the single-word quotation. I suppose that what, if anything, is in the reporter’s mind is an impulse to indicate that the subject’s exact words are be… ...
Andrew Heisel’s Lexicon Valley article last year on single versus double quotation marks piqued the interest of Keith Houston, author of Shady ...
Sean Spicer insists Trump put “wiretapping” in quotation marks for a reason. That's not often the case.
They’re not. Except within other quotations, single quotation marks are always wrong. Don’t use a comma to separate items joined by a conjunction unless those items are complete clauses.
Web publications often favor straight quotation marks, a pragmatic approach to typography that old-school stylists can’t stand.
The reader was correct that the word “equity” should not have been in quotation marks in the headline. Quote marks are used in headlines when a word or phrase is a direct quote from the article.
You're using quotation marks wrong, and a new website wants you to stop.
So, what else gets the quotation mark treatment? In addition to dialogue, Associated Press style instructs us to put quotation marks around the titles of books, songs, television shows, computer games ...
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 ...