How do I use appostrophes and quotations seperately?
I know quotations are used when someone’s saying something, but how about the appostrophes? I don’t mean using it in words like don’t, won’t, wouldn’t, couldn’t, ect.
Oh I know about possesive nouns, but I mean like can you use them as quotations? I can’t really explain well…
Apostrophes are usually used for contractions (don’t, won’t, etc) and for possessive nouns. Possessive nouns are, as their name says, nouns which possess something. For example, in the sentence “My brother’s bike,” brother’s would be a possessive noun; since the apostrophe is before the “s,” the noun is singular. If the apostrophe was after the “s” (brothers’), the noun would be plural; i hope this helps
If you are quoting something from a book, you would use quotation marks. If within this quote from a book, there is someone saying something that is in quotes, then apostrophes would go around this quote. So what you have is a quotation within something that you are quoting from a book. For instance, “As he was going to the store, he met an old friend, and said to him, ‘Hi, Frank, how are you?’, knowing that he didn’t really care how Frank was.” Hope this helps.
You may be thinking of single quotation marks. They look like apostrophes, but are actually quotation marks. They’re used to mark a quote (or title of a short work like a song or story) within a quote. Example: He said “I know exactly how Elvis felt when he sang ‘Heartbreak Hotel’.” Or: She told her son “Don’t forget to say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ to your grandparents.” Or: My friend reminded me, “You swore you would ‘never, ever in a million years’ ride on a roller coaster again.”
Single quotation marks are also used in the U.K. instead of double quotation marks.