In most cases, single quotation marks are easy to manage.--JUNE CASAGRANDE is author of “The Best Punctuation Book, Period.” She can be reached at [email protected]. Advertisement.

Single quotation marks, if you recall, are used for quotations within quotations: “Stop saying ‘dude’!” They perform the same function as regular quotation marks, ...

I didn't see this posted anywhere when I was searching for a solution to changing the direction of quotation marks in Microsoft Word (open versus closed), so I thought I would post the solution I ...

But it's not hard to fix it up (e.g. leave a space between the opening double quote and the opening single quote, so Word will direct both the right way, and then delete the space).