Talk:Quotations Marks/@comment-44826798-20200123025334

Quotation marks are used to indicate the beginning and end of a quote. They tell the reader when you've used written material from other sources or direct speech.

Quotations within quotations Use single quotation marks within double ones to indicate a quotation within a quotation.

“ My father began by saying, 'I refuse to listen to any excuses,'” he told the psychiatrist.

A single quotation mark in a double quotation is a bit brand new to me. I rarely find it on books that I read.

Reference: Uses of Quotation Marks. (2020). Retrieved 23 January 2020, from https://www.cliffsnotes.com/study-guides/grammar/dashes-parentheses-and-quotation-marks/uses-of-quotation-marks