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Quotation marks in English

In English writing, quotation marks or inverted commas, also known informally as quotes, talking marks, speech marks, quote marks, quotemarks or speechmarks, are punctuation marks placed on either side of a word or phrase in order to identify it as a quotation, direct speech or a literal title or name. Quotation marks may be used to indicate that the…

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Quotation marks in English

Nodes109
Edges108
Triples7
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.018349
Components1

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quotation marks used mark closing also quotes double single style sometimes typographic speech punctuation said word use often may opening

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The Economistinstance ofwith some authoritative sources0.80text
The Times recommending the same usage as in the USinstance ofwith some authoritative sources0.80text
whereas other authoritative sourcesinstance ofwith some authoritative sources0.80text
such as The King's Englishinstance ofwith some authoritative sources0.80text
Fowler'sinstance ofwith some authoritative sources0.80text
and New Hart's Rulesinstance ofwith some authoritative sources0.80text
recommend single quotation marksinstance ofwith some authoritative sources0.80text

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