Using a full stop in texts could be giving away your age, an expert has suggested. Noël Wolf, a linguistic expert, said young people – aged from 13 to 28 – were rewriting the rules to “shift” the ...

Our language needs quotation marks. Without them, we couldn't know who said what to whom or even what they meant. Unfortunately, using them can prove tricky. Quotations marks appear in both double ...

In American English, the period or comma always falls inside the closing quotation mark, writes June Casagrande, while the placement of other marks depends on use.

It’s the single quotation mark. Sometimes it seems that no one knows how to use it, including a lot of professional editors. These folks usually have no problem with regular quotation marks.

Use Quotation Marks to Find Files Another interesting search combination is using quotation marks to locate files. You can find all kinds of file types through Google, specifically.

I think that Donald Trump has invented a new use for quotation marks. In several now-famous tweets, the president accused Barack Obama of wiretapping him during the election. Trump used quotation ...

Ben Yagoda’s students reach for quotation marks when they realize they’ve written a cliché. But the president of the United States? Something else is clearly going on.

But over and above what the quotation marks didn’t mean, it’s worth asking why Trump used them in the first place.

Use them sparingly and wisely. And if you want a good laugh, go visit the “Blog” of “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks. Share this!

Finally, use quotation marks to indicate something is unusual, novel, ironic, or sarcastic. For instance: NASA continues to make us believe in the so-called “moon landing.” ...