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  • Punctuation Rules for Quotation Marks in Written English
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    Punctuation Rules for Quotation Marks in Written English

    Punctuation marks, as a convention of writing, help to make reading and writer easier by ensuring the clarity of written language. There are six punctuation rules for using double quotation marks and single quotation marks as punctuation marks in written American English: Double quotation marks with direct quotations Single quotation marks inside double quotation marks […] More

  • English Punctuation
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    English Punctuation

    Discover the rules for using apostrophes, braces, brackets, colons, commas, dashes, ellipses, hyphens, italics, parentheses, periods, question marks, exclamation marks, interrobangs, quotation marks, semicolons, and slashes in written American English with the following guides for punctuation rules. Apostrophes Punctuation Rules for Apostrophes in Written English explains the use of apostrophes to form possessive nouns, to […] More