Much has been said about misused quotation marks. Photos of signs boasting about "fresh" seafood and "free" refills abound on the Internet, offering a good laugh at the expense of business owners who ...

I’ve gotten a lot of emails recently about where to put periods and commas relative to quotation marks. The notes were prompted by a recent column in which I mentioned that, in American English, a ...

A quotation is a phrase taken directly from a text or speech. These punctuation marks should contain the words taken from the text: In A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens the character of Scrooge is ...