This one gets slightly trickier
The American Medical Association Manual of Style (9th ed, 1998) calls misused quotation marks like this Apologetic Quotation Marks and says: Quotation marks used around words to give special effect or to indicate irony are usually unnecessary
Quotation marks are primarily used to indicate material that is being reproduced word for word, as well as some other important uses
What’s more, quotation marks are used to apply a normal idea to something new, like this: Quotation marks worksheet Author: K5 Learning Subject: Grade 4 Punctuation Worksheet: Quotation marks Keywords: punctuation, quotation marks, commas, english, grammar, worksheet, grade 4 Created Date: 6/3/2019 3:18:34 AM Quotation marks are used to indicate the beginning and end of a quote
Quotation marks should be used to directly quote the words of someone else, with titles of short works, and when indicating certain words as words
Periods and commas should go inside closing quotation marks, “like this
The pair consists of an opening quotation mark and a closing quotation mark, which may or may not be the same character
I was taught that this was the one exception to the
Thus, in the following sentence, the comma is placed after taught: “You’ve got to be carefully taught,” wrote Oscar Hammerstein II
See below for a few examples: “Insert quotation here” (Author Last Name page number)