Quotation Mark (Noun)
Meaning
A punctuation mark used to attribute the enclosed text to someone else.
Classification
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
Examples
- The professor asked the students to use quotation marks when referencing dialogue in their essays, so that the cited text is clearly attributed to the original author.
- She then underlined and put quotation marks around the phrase to emphasize it was not her own but rather a direct quote from the book.
- The formatting guidelines for the article specified that quotation marks should be used to attribute original text from other published sources.
- The instructions on formatting foreign terms instructed using italics instead of quotation marks for common loanwords in a published work.
- I remember to put quotation marks around direct citations to properly attribute the texts I referenced in my thesis.