Which punctuation mark should be used to denote a quote within a quote? A. No quotation marks B. Single quotation marks C. Double quotation marks D. Standard quotation marks
English · High School · Tue Nov 03 2020
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B. Single quotation marks
When you have a quotation within another quotation, you use single quotation marks for the internal quote and double quotation marks for the external quote. This helps to distinguish between the two sets of speech. Here is an example:
Sally said, "I think Bob mentioned, 'Please bring your notebook tomorrow,' when I spoke to him."
In this sentence, double quotation marks are used for what Sally said, and single quotation marks are used for what Bob said within Sally’s speech.