{"id":153,"date":"2015-05-15T13:20:01","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T11:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/?page_id=153"},"modified":"2015-05-15T13:20:01","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T11:20:01","slug":"quotation-marks","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/pagina-exemple\/punctuation\/quotation-marks\/","title":{"rendered":"Quotation marks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Use quotation marks, also called inverted commas, to indicate direct quotations and definitions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Small_OK\"<\/a><\/td>\nBefore bestowing the award the Rector said, \u201c<\/span>Dr Robinson\u2019s efforts to oppose discrimination place him among the few who actually deserve such an honour.\u201d<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
\"Small_OK\"<\/a><\/td>\nAccording to this dictionary, a methodology is \u201c<\/span>a body of methods, rules and postulates employed by a discipline\u201d<\/span>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Always use double marks for a quotation and single marks for a quotation within a quotation.<\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n
\"Small_OK\"<\/a><\/td>\n\u201c<\/span>His office door is very unusual; it has \u2018<\/span>Welcome\u2019<\/span> written all over it in over thirty different languages.\u201d<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

Punctuation should be placed according to the meaning: if it belongs to the quotation, it is quoted; otherwise, it is not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Small_OK\"<\/a><\/td>\nAccording to the Dean, \u201c<\/span>The need for structural change is paramount.\u201d<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
\"Small_OK\"<\/a><\/td>\nThe Dean declared that the need for structural change was \u201c<\/span>paramount\u201d<\/span>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Quotations of over four lines in length should be set off from the text as a block quotation, not enclosed in quotation marks, and single-spaced. Quoted matter within the block quotation is set off with double quotation marks; quotations within these quotations, with single quotation marks, and so on.<\/p>\n

Single quotation marks can also help show the reader that a word or term is used in an unusual, colloquial or ironic way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Small_OK\"<\/a><\/td>\nNature somehow \u2018knows\u2019<\/span> the best environmental course to take.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
\"Small_OK\"<\/a><\/td>\nThe students felt \u2018ripped off\u2019<\/span> by the lecturer\u2019s decision to hold the exam a week earlier than scheduled.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
\"Small_OK\"<\/a><\/td>\nThat lecturer is famous for sharing her \u2018wisdom\u2019<\/span> with her students.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

However, if you overuse quotation marks in these ways, they lose their effect.<\/p>\n

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Use quotation marks, also called inverted commas, to indicate direct quotations and definitions. Before bestowing the award the Rector said, \u201cDr Robinson\u2019s efforts to oppose discrimination place him among the few who actually deserve such an honour.\u201d According to this dictionary, a methodology is \u201ca body of methods, rules and postulates employed by a discipline\u201d. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"parent":130,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-153","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/153\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}