Gray areas abound. Continuing from last week's column, I asked Post staffers and readers to comment on Post policy that using quotation marks means "those exact words should have been uttered in ...

What shocked me was the punctuation. Either the writer or the assignment editor who read the article before me got the quotation marks right. And considering how baffling American punctuation ...

Apostrophe with single quotation mark: This one’s harder. Sometimes one of those words that ends in an apostrophe can appear at the end of an internal quotation that ends with a single quote ...

Quotation Marks: Even if you use regular quotation marks ... If the word has a blue background the link is active, if it has a gray background the link is inactive. Clicking on the word toggles ...

Double quotation marks are used for direct quotations and titles of compositions such as books, plays, movies, songs, lectures and TV shows. They also can be used to indicate irony and introduce an ...

I love finding examples of random quotation marks in sentences. I've written about this amusing practice before, but I was determined to find fresh examples after a reader asked about them recently.

Use double quotation marks (" ") to enclose phrases or entire sentences that were taken word for word from someone else. Quotation marks are not needed for paraphrasing. Example: The dog he brings on ...

Many of the responses to that tweet put quotation marks around the word "accidentally", or said things like "Riiiiight." "As it accelerates in and breaks out into bigger audiences, you do start to ...