ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Use quotation marks only when quoting someone’s exact words, either spoken or written. This is called a direct quotation.

Detailed explanation-2: -In English writing, quotation marks or inverted commas, also known informally as quotes, talking marks, speech marks, quote marks, quotemarks or speechmarks, are punctuation marks placed on either side of a word or phrase in order to identify it as a quotation, direct speech or a literal title or name.

Detailed explanation-3: -Use double quotation marks (“”) around a direct quote. A direct quote is a word-for-word report of what someone else said or wrote. You use the exact words and punctuation of the original.

Detailed explanation-4: -1. More appropriately called a quotation mark and alternatively known as a double quote or inverted commas, a quotation mark is a symbol ( “ ) on a keyboard. It is located next to the Enter key on a US QWERTY keyboard.

Detailed explanation-5: -Quotation marks around single words can occasionally be used for emphasis, but only when quoting a word or term someone else used. Usually, this implies that the author doesn’t agree with the use of the term. He said he was “working”; it looked to me like he was procrastinating. You call this filthy room “clean”?!