When to Use Single Quotation Marks
Use single quotation marks for quotes inside of quotes. Use apostrophes to serve as single quotation marks. Single quotation marks follow the same rules as regular quotation marks.
- Example: The professor said, “Read the article entitled ‘How to Grow Hydroponic Tomatoes.'”
- Example: In her essay on creativity, the author states, “According to Sigmund Freud, dreams are ‘the royal road to the unconscious,’ and new research is proving him right.”
