Quotation marks signal the use of another person’s words. This could be a character’s speech in a piece of fiction, a snippet of a conversation in a nonfiction piece, or a portion of another’s writing included in an academic or professional piece. “Stop!” She shouted. “Be yourself...
They indicate a quotation or direct speech and set words and passages apart from the rest of the text. They signal the use of someone else’s words to help distinguish between the source’s voice and the quoted material. “How do we use quotation marks?” the student asked their teacher....
Sometimes things which are without life as we conceive it and which, properly speaking, belong to the neuter gender, are, by a figure of speech called personification, changed into either the masculine or feminine gender, as, for instance, we say of the sun, He is rising; of the moon, ...
Now that you know what they look like, it's time to learn when to use quotation marks and how to use them correctly. This lesson will cover three very common reasons for using quotation marks: when directly quoting the words of others, when emphasizing specific words, and when using nickna...
My mother emailed me last week to ask if she was using the word “nor” correctly, which brings us to today’s post: the use of either or and neither nor.
Here is your chance to put all of your punctuation skills into practice! Can you use commas, speech marks, colons, semicolons, full stops, exclamation marks, question marks and apostrophes? Of course you can! You've been learning punctuation for years and probably use it, or at least see...
No way! I am not going to go to Goa in the rainy season. How irritating! My sister is always making noise when I try to read the book. Note: You will see people using many exclamation marks after a sentence. One does the job enough. There is really no need to use it multiple ti...
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Convert audio to text on both Android and iOS devices. Transcribe audio to text free using apps like Speechnotes on android and Dictation speech to text on iOS devices.
Some names can be hard for Siri to pronounce, and if you don't correct the matter won't be accurately retrieved by Apple's voice-powered assistant. Here's how to fix them.