What is a Quotation Mark? Explain.
Difficulty: Easy
Quotation Mark:
It is a punctuation mark(' '),(" ") used:
to enclose words and punctuation in direct speech:
‘Why on earth did you do that? He asked
I’ll fetch it, she replied.
to draw attention to a word that is unusual for the context, for example, a slang expression, or to a word that is being used for special effects, such as irony:
He told me in no uncertain terms to ‘get lost.
Thousands were imprisoned in the name of ‘national security.
around the titles of articles, books, poems, plays etc.:
Keats ‘Ode to autumn
I was watching ‘Match of the Day
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