Quotation Marks

Updated August 5, 2020 | Infoplease Staff

Use quotation marks:

• To set off direct quotations:
  “Let's go to the beach,” she suggested.
  
• To set off titles of short stories, articles, chapters, essays, songs, poems, and individual radio and television programs:
  Chapter 9, “The New Englishes”
  sang the “Star-Spangled Banner”
  “The Apparent Trap” episode of Frasier
• To set off words and phrases that are being used in an unusual or questionable way or might be preceded by so-called:
  Mari's “fine” was a day's volunteer work.
  According to the article, bees appear to “remember” landmarks.

See also: Quotation Marks: Quote/Unquote