What's the difference between single quotation marks and double quotation marks in English?

Quotation quotation marks (double quotation marks ""single quotation marks, unless otherwise specified)

Tag single quotation mark "")

5. 1 direct reference, which is the most common usage:

5. 1. 1 quotation marks are the original sentence:

1. She said, "Good." She said, "Hurry up." (Note the differences in punctuation usage between Chinese and English)

2. "I can come today," she said, "but not tomorrow."

3. The sign changed from "walking" to "Don't walk" and then to "walking".

In 30 seconds

4. "I'm finally tired enough to sleep," she yawned.

The end is a comma, and no period is allowed. )

5. They shouted, "Congratulations!" Go through the door.

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5. 1.2 If the quoted sentence itself is declarative and the whole sentence is interrogative, a question mark should be added after the quotation marks:

1. Did he say, "I'm going to college next year"? (Note that it is ". . 。” ? Question mark in

Outside quotation marks)

Do you agree with the proverb "A living dog is better than a dead lion"?

Do you agree with the sentence in quotation marks? So you should put a question mark at the end of the sentence.

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5. 1.3 If the quotation itself is a problem, the question mark should be enclosed in quotation marks:

1. Did he say, "Are you going to college next year?" Here "..."? "This

Questions should be enclosed in quotation marks. It can't be written as he said, "Are you going to college next?

Year? "? )

2. She asked, "Will you still be my friend?" There is no question mark at the end of the sentence. )

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5. 1.4 If the quoted word or phrase is not interrupted in the whole sentence, there is no need to add a comma:

. The phrase "lovely, dark and deep" began to imply ominous.

Overtone

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5. 1.5 If the quoted sentence is part of a sentence, please put a colon (:) before the quotation marks:

1. My mother likes to quote a sentence from Shakespeare: "The most important thing is to be true to yourself."

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5. 1.6 If there are other quotations in the quotation, please use single quotation marks ('') to indicate the differences:

1. George explained, "I heard her say,' Go away!'" So I left. "

He said, "Mary said,' Don't treat me like that.' "(Note that the period at the end of the sentence is enclosed in single quotation marks, and punctuation is not allowed between single quotation marks and double quotation marks at the end of the sentence.)

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5. 1.7 When there are more than two paragraphs in the reference, only use quotation marks (") at the beginning of each paragraph, and don't add quotation marks (") until the end of the paragraph:

"This is paragraph 1 (only").

"This is the second paragraph (only the word" is used here).

"This is the third paragraph." (Use ""at the end)

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5. 1.8 quotations from multi-person dialogues, with each dialogue accounting for one paragraph:

"I'll do my best," he said. (A comma is used at the end of the quotation mark instead of a period, because it means to follow.)

"How old is he?" She asked.

"According to his passport, he is the third. "(The quotation here ends with a period, because there is nothing he said)

"What's his real name?"

Wilson.'

"Edward Wilson," she said softly.

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5.2 The quotation belongs to "silent dialogue", regardless of quotation marks:

1. "Oh, what a beautiful morning," Curly said to himself. (Oh, really.

"Beautiful morning" is what curly said to himself. It didn't make a sound.

2. "Oh, what a beautiful morning!" Curly said to him. (quotation marks are ok)

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5.3 Indirect quotation cannot be quoted:

1. The president said that the North American Free Trade Agreement will eventually benefit small businesses in both countries. What the president said is not the original words, so don't put quotation marks. )

Professor Vera told her students that the textbook had not been published.

Bookstore.

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5.4 Articles, reports, comments, short stories, poems, plays, movies and other titles/articles are all cited.

5.4. 1 Use double quotation marks ("") for the title or topic mentioned in the sentence:

1. My favorite short story is Treasure (the period at the end of the sentence is American in quotation marks; British style is a "treasure" in quotation marks. )

My favorite poem is Robert Frost's Design.

3. The poem "Tree" was written by Joyce Kiel. ("tree" is in a sentence, and other punctuation marks are not allowed)

Time Machine is my favorite movie.

What do you think of william shakespeare's Henry V? Besides periods and commas, the location of other questions, such as question marks, depends on the sentence. )

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5.4.2 The quotation marks appearing in newspaper headlines should be single quotation marks (''):

1. Congress shouted "Shame!"

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5.5 Special vocabulary

5.5. 1 When special terms or words with special emphasis are quoted, there should be no comma before the quotation marks:

1. The doctor calls the red spot "hemangioma" and cannot write it ... as a "hemangioma")

2. Kaufman profoundly describes Sartre's treatment of "existence" in his book, not "non-existence". (Key concepts in philosophy are applied in single quotation marks)

Transfer from douban Jojo: usage of English quotations