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Meanings of inverted commas in English
Punctuation mark.
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Synonyms
Examples for "quote"
Examples for "quote"
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Truthiness: People have certainly talked about that Etch-a-Sketch quote quite a bit.
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Here's the quote: Analysts need not come solely from the intelligence community.
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Labour has sent a fairly anodyne quote about the French nuclear deal.
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Best quote: I am strongly opposed to all forms of proportional representation.
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Cameron asks Miliband to ask the question again, including the complete quote.
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It's one of the best quotes I've heard this year Repeat Yourself.
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Others appeared to expect payment for building work, their quotes varying wildly.
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The last thing I need right now is some cliched religious quotes.
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New Idea quotes Lattanzi as saying that It's hard, we lost someone.
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Individual share price quotes were not affected, and trading volume was normal.
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You must ensure that the parameter itself is within the quotation marks.
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The French have retained these signs as their quotation marks ever since.
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And I could practically hear her making quotation marks with her fingers.
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The single quotation marks are not always needed, but they never hurt.
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These words are without quotation marks because they remain politically homeless.
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Abstaining from speech marks him who is obeying the spontaneity of his nature.
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This great speech marks the highest point attained by Mr. Webster as a public man.
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Christopher Christie's speech marked the opening of a 2016 presidential campaign he might want to try again.
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Friday's speech marked the third consecutive year Trump has spoken to the annual meeting of the NRA.
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This speech marks an important change in Mr. Webster's views and in his course as a statesman.
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Or does it just not understand what a quotation mark is for?
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Page 374 - missing single quotation mark added after this is terrible.
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Page 204 - missing quotation mark added after me and my God.
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Page 450 - missing quotation mark added before is one of antiquity
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Page 258 - missing quotation mark added before we saw a drum
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Zerbrowski made little quote marks with his fingers when he said accident.
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Those quote marks indicate the one-way nature of this troubled friendship.
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Minor punctuation errors (omitted or incorrect punctuation, mismatched quote marks etc.)
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I also think Bogan's a homophobe. More quote marks.
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Flair made quote marks with his fingers.
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Email section restored, lost due to wayward quote mark in hyperlink.
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Page 54 - missing quote mark added: faithfully serving King George.
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Page 24 - missing quote mark added: in Scots' affairs.
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Page 111 - extra quote mark removed from before MAR.
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Page 36 - missing quote mark added: Scottish nobility.
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Abstaining from speech marks him who is obeying the spontaneity of his nature.
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This great speech marks the highest point attained by Mr. Webster as a public man.
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This speech marks an important change in Mr. Webster's views and in his course as a statesman.
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The speech marks another stage in his effort to reposition the party's attitude towards public services in advance of local and European elections next year.
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Speech in Cusk's trilogy is a charged affair, presented in a variety of ways: the narrator's indirectly, her interlocutors most usually within speech marks.
Usage of inverted commas in English
1
The mark for the apostrophe; and also the marks for inverted commas.
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When asked by the flat owner he replies, with definite inverted commas.
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Sometimes the novel gives us these directly, as if in inverted commas.
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He puts words from me in inverted commas and alters them.
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Yet I looked in vain to see if they wore their inverted commas.
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For 25 years I've been putting those inverted commas around Kylie.
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The inverted commas are given here as they appear in Dr. Westcott's book.
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The inverted commas are in there because everything is free.
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The concluding passage in inverted commas, is entirely his own.
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There are deliberately no inverted commas around the word marry in the above sentence.
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The last two words were spoken as with inverted commas.
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Type into Google Maps your full name in inverted commas or your twitter handle.
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One certain measure is the absence of inverted commas on The Irish Times letters page.
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Says Sir George Grove, quoting Mr. Edward Dannreuther, in the passages within the inverted commas:
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He wished that in conversation, as well as in writing, people would use inverted commas.
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J. Ivimey; double inverted commas denote quotations of Scripture.
