In English writing, quotation marks or inverted commas, also known informally as quotes, talking marks, speech marks, quote marks, quotemarks or speechmarks...
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marks, boxes, or other symbols. Quotation marks are punctuation marks used in pairs in various writing systems to identify direct speech, a quotation...
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Guillemet (redirect from Angle quotation marks)
are a pair of punctuation marks in the form of sideways double chevrons, « and », used as quotation marks in some languages. In some of these languages...
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by the original speaker. In narrative, it is usually enclosed in quotation marks, but it can be enclosed in guillemets (« ») in some languages. The cited...
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Typographical symbols and punctuation marks are marks and symbols used in typography with a variety of purposes such as to help with legibility and accessibility...
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Scare quotes (redirect from Sarcastic quotation marks)
quotes or sneer quotes) are quotation marks that writers place around a word or phrase to signal that they are using it in an ironic, referential, or otherwise...
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’ (U+2019 RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK) is used for both a typographic apostrophe and a single right (closing) quotation mark. This is due to the many...
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influence on local English, as in the Philippines). These two styles differ mainly in the way in which they handle quotation marks with adjacent punctuation...
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The "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks is a blog about the misuse of English quotation marks. The blog features photographs of signs, notes and advertisements...
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apostrophes"; "a pair of marks " used underneath a word"; the symbol " (quotation mark); or the symbol ” (right double quotation mark). In the following example...
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are: Quotation marks, usage in English language Quotation marks, international variation Quotation mark glyphs, various glyphs used String literals, in programming...
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acceptable in American English, but US style guides overwhelmingly prefer a.m./p.m. The use of quotation marks, also called inverted commas or speech marks, is...
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Japanese punctuation (section Quotation marks)
square quotation marks, ellipses, dashes, and swung dashes are rotated clockwise 90° when used in vertical text (see diagram). Japanese punctuation marks are...
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Bracket (redirect from Quine's corner quotation marks)
American English. "Brackets", without further qualification, are in British English the (...) marks and in American English the [...] marks. Other symbols...
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Comma (redirect from Commas in English)
filled-in figure 9 placed on the baseline. In many typefaces it is the same shape as an apostrophe or single closing quotation mark ’. The comma is used in many...
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English work on a similar plan," a reference to Handbook of Familiar Quotations from English Authors, written by Isabella Rushton Preston in 1853. In...
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Full stop (redirect from Suspension mark)
that appeared in the original material should be included within the quotation marks; all others follow the closing quotation marks. ... In the kind of...
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Hebrew punctuation (category All Wikipedia articles written in American English)
in Hebrew between opening and closing quotation marks has mostly disappeared, and today, quotations are most often punctuated as they are in English (such...
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efficiently to read and write English. English writing also includes a system of punctuation marks that is similar to those used in most alphabetic languages...
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ʻOkina (category Hawaiian English)
closing quotation marks. There is one ʻokina before the Ō and another one before the last i. These are slightly smaller than the quotation marks in the first...
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hierarchical quotation sublevels are usually punctuated by alternating between primary quotation marks and secondary quotation marks. For a comprehensive...
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Punctuation (redirect from Punctuation marks)
other punctuation marks. In British English, punctuation marks such as full stops and commas are placed inside the quotation mark only if they are part...
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emphasis. The exclamation mark often marks the end of a sentence, for example: "Watch out!". Similarly, a bare exclamation mark (with nothing before or...
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Chinese punctuation (redirect from Chinese punctuation marks)
punctuation marks adapt to this change in direction: the parentheses, square brackets, square quotation marks, book title marks, ellipsis marks, and dashes...
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Apostrophe (redirect from Apostrophe in English)
q's" or Oakland A's. The same mark is used as a single quotation mark. It is also substituted informally for other marks – for example instead of the prime...
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closing quotation marks even in cases in which British rules would place them outside. American English also favors the double quotation mark ("like this")...
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Slovene punctuation (section Exclamation mark)
types of inverted commas and quotation marks (⟨“...”⟩, ⟨‘...’⟩, ⟨‚...‘⟩, ⟨„...“⟩, ⟨»...«⟩), brackets ((), [], {}) (which are in syntactical use), as well...
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magazines are in italics, all other types of literature are not and are in quotation marks. References lead when possible to a link to the full text of the literature...
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'—All You Zombies—' (category Works originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction)
includes both the quotation marks and dashes shown above, is a quotation from a sentence near the end of the story; the quotation is taken from the middle...
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Irony punctuation (redirect from Sarcasm marks)
quotation marks. They are placed around a word or phrase to indicate that it is not used in the fashion that the writer would personally use it. In contrast...
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