Quotation marks examples

Quotation marks are the only punctuation marks you can do with your fingers (insert “air quotes” here), which is possibly why they’re often used incorrectly. Quotation marks set off quotes, show dialogue, and can even add a sarcastic tone to your writing.

You can keep the rules straight with a few tips and examples — and you can quote us on that.

Quotation marks are punctuation marks that mark quotations or citations in a sentence.

You’ll typically see them as double quotation marks that look like double apostrophes (“ ”), but they also appear in single quotation mark form (‘ ’), depending on their function in a sentence.

Also known as inverted commas, speech marks,quote marks, or just quotes, quotation marks always appear in pairs.

There’s never a time when you use one quotation mark without the other.

Quotation marks appear where the author needs to set quoted words apart from the rest of the sentence.

• “How do you do?” said the gentleman.
• I’ve never heard the song “Blowin’ in the Wind
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