Grammar Guy Curtis Honeycutt writes about the proper way to use quotation marks.

For the record, I didn’t say this, but I have a friend (let’s call him “Byron”) who thinks the moon landings are a hoax. Byron uses ironic and sarcastic quotation marks all the time when referring to ...

A few years ago while copy editing an article, I was shocked to see something like this: “I lecture my sales staff about what I call ‘me syndrome,’” Jones said. What shocked me was the punctuation.

When you think of double quotation marks, you probably remember your English lessons in school. However, in Microsoft Excel, ...

Have you ever gone on Google Search to find websites on a pretty specific topic and the search results ended up being not what you needed? It can be quite a hassle when the seemingly all-knowing ...

Colon (:) A colon is a punctuation mark you will come across very often in different circumstances. It can introduce an example, a list, an explanation, or a quotation.

Take the case of whether to use one with a closing quotation mark. When the stuff inside the quotation marks is a question, the question mark goes inside: They have a song titled “How Soon Is ...

The first and probably most common method for dealing with apostrophes and quotation marks is using a technique of combining single and double quotes.

Using Quotation Marks One of the most straightforward methods to search for exact phrases on Bing is by enclosing your search terms within quotation marks.

Everyday punctuation marks from the simple full stop to the quotation mark now mean something totally different as Gen Z adapt them to form new meanings, experts have revealed. Recently it was ...