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Single Quotation Marks

" " ' ' ' ' ' " " " ' ' '' " ' ' ' '' ' " " 

Introduction

If you need to use two rounds of inverted commas, use single quotation marks.

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They look like this ' '

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They also work in pairs, just like inverted commas.

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For example:

  • "My sister just goes around singing 'Postman Pat' all day!" complained Amelie. "I'm sick of it!"

single quotation marks (') used since we have already used speech marks (")

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