Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. To manually insert smart quotes, the keyboard must have a numeric keypad, and you must activate the Num Lock key. To use the ...

I’ve gotten a lot of emails recently about where to put periods and commas relative to quotation marks. The notes were prompted by a recent column in which I mentioned that, in American English, a ...

I don’t remember when I first learned about single quotation marks, but I have a vague memory of assuming they were as useful as quotation marks, or close to it. Sometimes you quote someone. Sometimes ...