Talk:Quotation Marks/@comment-44870336-20200123033843

The use of quotation marks under the APA format of writing helps declare spoken word from the writers' text, to not only avoid plagiarism but to also clearly define the writers work from quoted work. You also always want to capitalize the first letter within the quotation marks of the quote.

A solid rule of thumb is that quotation marks should come in pairs, such as: Mr. Johnson then said "I agree, they do come in pairs". The sentence would be a grammatical error if written "I agree, they do come in pairs.