Grammar Guide

Uses for Quotation Marks

around titles of newspaper articles, magazine articles, encyclopedia articles, book essays, short stories, poems, episodes of television programs, songs, and lectures

around a word or phrase which is being undermined through the context of the sentence or the import of the paper (can be dangerous, though, and easily overused)

Be careful, however, not to overdo this use of quotation marks, as in the following example:

The "thought process," as it is now called, supposedly leads to the "discovery" of "truth" and "moral uprightness."

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	Uses for Quotation Marks around titles of newspaper articles, magazine articles, encyclopedia articles, book essays, short stories, poems, episodes of television programs, songs, and lectures around another's word / phrase (if unusual enough to merit attribution) around words which are being presented as dialogue around a word or phrase which is being undermined through the context of the sentence or the import of the paper (can be dangerous, though, and easily overused) Be careful, however, not to overdo this use of quotation marks, as in the following example: The "thought process," as it is now called, supposedly leads to the "discovery" of "truth" and "moral uprightness." Callaway North 205A \| (404) 727-0886