What are quotation marks?
Q: What are quotation marks?
A: Quotation marks, also known as quotes or speech marks, are punctuation marks used in pairs to mark a section of text as speech, a quotation, a phrase, or an unusual word.
Q: What form do they come in?
A: Quotation marks come in either single (‘…’) or double (“…”) forms.
Q: How can the opening and closing quotation marks differ?
A: The opening and closing quotation marks can be identical in form (called “vertical” or “straight” or “typewriter” quotation marks), or they may be distinctly left-handed and right-handed (“typographic” or, colloquially, “curly” quotation marks).
Q: How is the closing single quotation mark similar to other characters?
A: The closing single quotation mark is identical or similar in form to the apostrophe and prime symbol.
Q: How do these three characters differ from one another?
A: These three characters have quite different purposes.
Q: What is the purpose of ditto mark?
A: A ditto mark is used to indicate that something should be repeated from a previous statement; it's like saying "same as above".
