use of quotation marks

collocation in English

meaningsofuse,quotationandcover

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use
noun
uk
/juːs/us
/juːs/
a purpose for which something ...
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quotation
noun[C]
uk
/kwəʊˈteɪ.ʃən/us
/kwoʊˈteɪ.ʃən/
a phrase or short piece of writing taken from a longer work of literature, poetry, etc. or what someone else ...
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cover
noun
uk
/ˈkʌv.ər/us
/ˈkʌv.ɚ/
something that is put on or over something else, usually to protect it, to keep something ...
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(Definition ofuse,quotationandcoverfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofuse of quotation marks

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As previously discussed, theuseofquotationmarks indicates that the expressions within quotation marks belong not to the journalist but to someone else.
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His excessiveuseofquotationmarks is irritating and inconsistent.
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In this article, theuseofquotationmarks serves two additional other functions.
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Parody, however, is substantially different from arrangement, since theuseofquotationor samples are combined to create a new whole.
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The presence of strong harmonic formulae derived from pre-existing music is the earliest and arguably the most outspoken aspect in hisuseofquotation.
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Unlike theuseofquotationmarks described above, however, it combines the quoted utterance with an explicit reference to the quoted speaker and the use of a metapragmatic verb.
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Excessiveuseofquotationmarks, eccentric footnotes, and a polemical, somewhat hysterical undertone mar the book.
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The story is written without theuseofquotationmarks, and the dialogue is not distinguished from the narrator's comments.
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Word order in buying ads according to keywords can be controlled through theuseofquotationmarks.
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