: Re: When do I use single quotation marks when I am typing or writing? I'm new to this website so I need help. A couple punctuation marks confuse me. It's hard for me to remember stuff.

@LarsenBagley300

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So double quotes are used to denote dialog or actual quotes from other sources (things they said word for word and you are just repeating.). Single quotes are normally used for quotes within dialog or quotes within quotes. Consider the following:

A teenage girl walked past on her phone. "And Kelly was like, 'No way!'" she said. "And I was like, 'Way!'"

Witnesses said the man was "acting crazy" by saying, "This is all the Muppet's doing.'"

As a final note of dialog, when a reporter is speaking the quotation, it will normally be given as followed:

The tv reporter continued, "A witness said the man was, quote, 'acting crazy' and 'This is all the Muppet's doing.'"

Here, the mentioning of quoting is used to denote the following statement is a direct statement from another source. Hope this helps.

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