A few days ago
hug_a_tree

how do you put quotation marks in a quotation?

For example: ” ‘He said’ ” Is this right?

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A few days ago
Lisa B

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It used to always be: “What does ‘he said’ mean, she asked.”

(The double quote marks on the outside, the single on the inside.) Now I sometimes see it the other way around in books: ‘What does “he said” mean, she asked.’

The first is still more common, but in either case, one set of marks is single, and the other double.

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A few days ago
Bee
“she said, ‘yep you’re right. that’s how you put quotation makes within a quote.’ “
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A few days ago
Anonymous
“He said” if it’s just like that. Or in a quotation “blah blah ‘He said’ blah blah”
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A few days ago
mmiller_2011
No

He said,”I like the sun.”

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