quotation mark
Also known as inverted commas, quotes, speech mark, ', ", “, ”, ‘
punctuation mark intended to distinguish citations, including notably high commas and guillemets, with variable usage depending on languages or typographical conventions
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A quotation mark is a punctuation symbol used to show that words are being repeated directly from someone else or from another source. Different languages and writing styles use different types of quotation marks—like the curved marks used in English or the angle brackets used in French—but they all serve the same basic purpose of marking borrowed words.
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Quotation marks are punctuation marks used in pairs in various writing systems to identify direct speech, a quotation, or a phrase. The pair consists of an opening quotation mark and a closing quotation mark, which may or may not be the same glyph. Quotation marks have a variety of forms in different languages and in different media.
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