When you are writing, inverted commas or speech marks go before and after direct speech, surrounding what was said. Inverted commas make it clear when someone is speaking by sitting high up above the ...

While speaking to another person, we might have to quote something the third person has said. If the third person is being directly quoted, then it is called direct speech. In order to write a ...

SOME British readers might wonder why a London-based publication uses double inverted commas like "these". And some American readers may wonder why commas and full stops (er, periods) sometimes appear ...

Andrew Heisel’s Lexicon Valley article last year on single versus double quotation marks piqued the interest of Keith Houston, author of Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and ...

This is an error in the spelling or grammar used when coding. Missing a letter, character or forgetting to include inverted commas/speech marks are common examples of ...

They are inaudible and unpronounceable. They do not exist in spoken English—they are at best a pause rather than a presence: no one (with apologies to those listening to this article in our audio ...