Samuel Richardson’s practice of explicitly opening and closing quotations was imitated in other works, and by the end of the eighteenth century marginal quotation marks had largely disappeared ...

Take quotation marks: Some forms of writing ... whether any given sentence is dialogue or narration. Defenders of the practice will insist that such techniques "force" the reader to contemplate ...

Quotation marks are used to set off a person's words, whether spoken or written. They are placed at both the beginning and end of the quote. Ex: Sue remarked, "I'll meet you at the movies," A comma is ...

To know how to punctuate that sentence, you need to understand apostrophes, single quotation marks, regular quotation marks, the rules for where to put a period relative to quotation marks and the ...

If you are an American, using quotation marks could hardly be simpler ... but I discovered that part of the reason this hybrid quote practice is spreading is that people aren’t seeking experts.

What shocked me was the punctuation. Either the writer or the assignment editor who read the article before me got the quotation marks right. And considering how baffling American punctuation ...

Busy legal writers can be driven to the brink of sanity by quotation marks that face in the wrong direction. On the legal writing professors' listserve, Jan Levine (at Duquesne University), has ...

Take the shape of quotation marks. These humble symbols are a dagger in my eye when a straight, or typewriter-style, pair appears in the midst of what is often otherwise typographic beauty.