Quotation marks have a hierarchy, grammar expert June Casagrande notes, and she advises how to put single quotes in their place.

If you are an American, using quotation marks could hardly be simpler: Use double quotation marks at all times unless quoting something within a quotation, when you use single. It’s different in the ...

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The single quote character (') is sometimes used with double quotes to express quotes within a quoted string. For example, in the dBASE statement ? 'Press the "Enter" key.', the single quotes surround ...

Picture this: A music reviewer makes a reference to the song “Space Truckin’” by Deep Purple. You want to quote him on it. Specifically, you want to quote a sentence in which the writer just happened ...

Andrew Heisel’s Lexicon Valley article last year on single versus double quotation marks piqued the interest of Keith Houston, author of Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and ...