I'm quite confused.My school teacher tell us to use one inverted comma ('......') when it is inside two inverted commas ("......") only.He also tells us to NOT use it when writing the word/phrase is,here are two examples:
Correct:The word is"happy".
Wrong :The word is'happy'.
But my tuition teacher tells us to use single inverted commas('.....') for word/phrase.Here are two examples:
Correct:The phrase is'happy'.
Wrong:The phrase is"happy".
So I've no idea which teacher is correct =(
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I do not use commas.
Only when you are listing should you use commas between adjectives. Hope this helped :)
Usually you would set off parenthetical phrases with commas, although you can, of course, also use actual parentheses.
I believe that when you have an appositive in a sentence that when it is not necessary you surround it with commas and when it is necessary, you don't use commas. This is what I believe the rule is, but I am not 100% sure. Anyone feel free to correct me if this is in any way not correct.
inverted commas
Use inverted commas when indicating direct speech, quoting someone, or highlighting specific words or phrases. They can also be used to denote irony or skepticism.
To print "thank you" in inverted commas in C programming, you can use the following code: #include <stdio.h> int main() { printf("\"thank you\"\n"); return 0; } This code will display the output as: "thank you"
She said "I thought 'Gone with the wind' was a good film".Otherwise, without using single quotes, the sentence would look like this:She said "I thought "Gone with the wind" was a good film".
Write a story of your own use inverted commas when you write conversations of your story(150words)
Treat the title of a speech in the same way as you would treat the title of a poem. Personally, I'd use single inverted commas for both, but there are alternative conventions.
you use inverted commas to break up sentences, e.g: Red, black and purple are my favorite colors e.g: Nathan, the lamb, is as cute as cute can be. e.g: galaxy chocolate bar, is luscious, brown and smooth.
You should have put the word 'or' in inverted commas, followed by a comma, or you might be misunderstood due to mistakes in punctuation!
Yes, but the convention is to switch from double quotes to single (or vice versa). An example: She answered, "He said 'Not likely' ". Alternatively, this could be punctuated: She answered, 'He said "Not likely" '. There is no rule about which of these two styles you follow, but it is important to be consistent once you have chosen one of the styles.
The inverted comma " " , is normally used to show what a person has said or is saying verbatim and not as reported speech. Inverted commas are normally used it books to show when a person is speaking, this separates it from the narration of the story line. For example: John shouted to James "Come here quickly". Paraphrased it would be, John shouted to James to come quickly.
Inverted commas (also known as quotation marks) are used to indicate that the enclosed text is a direct quotation or to highlight specific words or phrases. They are also used to denote titles of short works such as articles or poems.
The inverted commas, called quotation marks in American English, may be put around a word or phrase as a private joke between the writer and the reader. For example, we might write Jimmy put his "book" on the table, meaning that what he put on the table wasn't really a book, but he ( or we) called it a book.