Punctuation: quotation marks (‘…’ or “…”)
Quotation marks in English are ‘…’ or “…”. In direct speech, we enclose what is said within a pair of single or double quotation marks, although single quotation marks are becoming more common. Direct speech begins with a capital letter and can be preceded by a comma or a colon: …

Examples of quotation marks

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Quotationmarks or single underlining should not be used for this purpose.
In my experience, if you don't do that, then your editor will, as too many quotationmarks tend to clutter up the page.
As previously discussed, the use of quotationmarks indicates that the expressions within quotation marks belong not to the journalist but to someone else.
Punctuation that is not part of the quoted material should be outside closing quotationmarks, as should footnote indicators.
Advertisements and product packaging are a prolific source of catch-phrases, which are themselves often set in quotationmarks.
Subsequent material placed in quotationmarks but lacking citation is taken from these unpublished notes.
Like quotationmarks, direct quotation is a means through which the journalist indexes other voices and positions himself or herself with respect to those voices.
The quotationmarks surrounding "temporarily" are intended to convey that absolute systemic rigor is an illusory ideal.
Quotationmarks are used in the text to indicate when statements or phrases were recorded verbatim.
Double quotationmarks should only be used for quotations within quotations.
In this article, the use of quotationmarks serves two additional other functions.
In contrast, generic appellations are often put in quotationmarks.
According to him, the decline of manufacture was only a decline in quotationmarks, a result of intentional blows directed by the monarchy against capitalism!
The results of the phenomenological experiment are reported within the text in italics and in quotationmarks.
Why put such terms as "culture shock" (p. 88), "vanguard" (p. 91) and "bread and butter" (p. 99) in quotationmarks?
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