It is rewarding to explore the quotes and sayings available to us in book compilations and online. We add them to our personal experience of advice and warnings from family and friends. We can — and ...

When you invite HVAC contractors into your home, you are not just buying a metal box that heats and cools. You are committing ...

Quotes are a common element of a press release, designed to showcase the thought process or impact of your big news. But crafting the perfect quote can be daunting. You want your quote to convey so ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. Everyone knows that there’s only one use for single quotation marks, and that’s to denote a quote ...

A few years ago while copy editing an article, I was shocked to see something like this: “I lecture my sales staff about what I call ‘me syndrome,’” Jones said. What shocked me was the punctuation.

Andrew Heisel’s Lexicon Valley article last year on single versus double quotation marks piqued the interest of Keith Houston, author of Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and ...