Quotationmarks, also called quotes or inverted commas, are punctuationmarks used in pairs to set off speech, a quotation, or a phrase.
Quotationmarks are used for multiple-paragraph quotations in some cases, especially in narratives.
Quotationmarks are used to offset a nickname embedded in an actual name, or a false or ironic title embedded in an actual title; for example, Jennifer “J-Lo” Lopez.
These latter quotations are often called maxims or aphorisms and they are highly regarded for being pithy renderings of ideas that most people have but most have not been able to express so clearly.
Quotations are used for a variety of reasons: to enrich, illuminate the meaning or support the arguments of the work in which it is being quoted, to pay homage to the original work or author, to make the user of the quotation seem well-read and even to ridicule the original author.
In all these cases, quotations are usually included to give a glimpse of the user's personality, to make a statement of their beliefs, or just to spread their memes around.
Quotationmarks are used to enclose direct speech and quotations: "Where are you?" he called.
Quotationmarks are often used to make a particular word or phrase stand out from the surrounding text, usually to draw attention to it or because the author is using it self-consciously or skeptically: compound words such as "toothbrush" and "red currant";in a more "family-friendly" environment.
Where one piece of direct speech occurs within another, or within a quotation, use quotationmarks of the opposite type: She said, "I told him to leave and he asked 'Why should I?'" Remember that a period or comma is always placed inside the quotationmark.
Quotationmarks, as their name implies, mark quotes in a piece of text.
Quotationmarks are also set off words and phrases used in a special sense, such as technical terms.
Quotationmarks also indicate words that the author uses ironically, sarcastically, or words the author wants to make distant from himself, but overusing this is problematic.
Quotationmarks also set off the titles of things that do not normally stand by themselves: short stories, poems, and articles.
Usually, a quotation is set off from the rest of the sentence by a comma; however, the typography of quoted material can become quite complicated.
The placement of marks other than periods and commas follows the logic that quotationmarks should accompany (be right next to) the text being quoted or set apart as a title.
The exact rules for quotationmarks vary greatly from language to language and even from country to country within the English-speaking world.
You also use quotationmarks are used to set off certain titles, usually those of minor or short works -- essays, short stories, short poems, songs, articles in periodicals, etc. For titles of longer works and separate publications, you should use italics (or underlined, if italics are not available).
Question marks, exclamation marks, and dashes go inside quotationmarks when they are part of the quotation, and outside when they do not.
Use a comma to introduce a quotation after a standard dialogue tag, a brief introductory phrase, or a dependent clause, for example, "He asked," "She stated," "According to Bronson," or "As Shakespeare wrote." Use a colon to introduce a quotation after an independent clause.
Put a dash, question mark, or exclamation point within closing quotationmarks when the punctuation applies to the quotation itself and outside when it applies to the whole sentence.
Do not use quotationmarks for common nicknames, bits of humor, technical terms that readers are likely to know, and trite or well-known expressions.
The quotationmarks around “intellectuals” indicate that the writer believes that these are in fact so-called intellectuals, not real intellectuals at all.
The ironic use of quotationmarks is very much overdone, and is usually a sign of laziness indicating that the writer has not bothered to find the precise word or expression necessary.
Single quotationmarks are also used in linguistic, phonetic, and philosophical studies to surround words and phrases under discussion; but the common practice of using single quotationmarks for short phrases and words and double ones for complete sentences is otherwise an error.
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Either of a pair of punctuationmarks used primarily to mark the beginning and end of a passage attributed to another and repeated word for word, but also to indicate meanings or glosses and to indicate the unusual or dubious status of a word.
They appear in the form of double quotationmarks (" ") and single quotationmarks (' ').
Single quotationmarks are usually reserved for setting off a quotation within another quotation.
This punctuation character is a "symmetric" quotationmark as opposite to "smart" or "asymmetric" quotationmarks.
Unicode, there are several pairs of asymmetric quotationmarks, but of them, only the double angle quotationmarks « and » belong to ISO Latin 1.
U+2019 right single quotationmark is preferred where the character is to represent a punctuationmark, as in "We've been here before." In the latter case, U+2019 is also referred to as a punctuationapostrophe.
If a quotation of prose takes more than four lines, if a quotation of poetry takes more than three lines, or if you need to give a shorter quotation special emphasis, do not use quotationmarks.
Never leave the opening quotationmarks stranded at the right margin, with the quoted passage on the following line; or the closing marks stranded at the left margin.
Do not use quotationmarks, double or single, to indicate that you are speaking ironically.
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I learned 49 years ago that comma and period as a rule come before the quotationmark in American English.
But you asked "can someone explain to me which usage is generally acceptable?" Here the question mark is inside the quotes because it is a part of the quote.
Vincentine: In AE, commas and periods go inside quotationmarks regardless of logic.
They're quotationmarks, and they turn up in the strangest of places.
Just about the only saving grace of the onslaught of spam is the frequent misuse of quotationmarks found in the messages, although given the choice I'd gladly forego the junk e-mail since there is no shortage of misused quotationmarks in the wild.
I don't see what the connection is between the misused quotationmarks around the word "live" and the emotional significance, funny or otherwise, of that recording but let me just assure you that I "care" deeply.
Since 0x60/0xB4 were defined to be accents by the modern standards, their symmetric shape got priority, except that this had not been fixed in the X fonts until 2004 (somewhat earlier in the versions that come with XFree86).
The characters 0x27 (apostrophe) and 0x22 (quotationmark) are often used to abbreviate minutes and seconds or feet and inches, which is yet another reason, why 0x27 should just be a single-stroke version of 0x22, and not a curly directional quotationmark.
PostScript standard encoding followed a practice similar to the old X fonts, with all its problems, namely it mapped the ASCII bytes 0x60 and 0x27 to curly opening and closing quotationmarks (“quoteleft” and “quoteright” in PostScript glyph-name terminology, or U+2018 and U+2019 in Unicode).
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To say that the majority of published documents, both on the Internet and in print, contain mistakes with quotationmark placement, MIGHT be an exaggeration.
Questions marks, exclamation points and dashes go OUTSIDE the mark UNLESS they belong to the quotation.
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