SOME British readers might wonder why a London-based publication uses double inverted commas like "these". And some American readers may wonder why commas and full stops (er, periods) sometimes appear ...

While speaking to another person, we might have to quote something the third person has said. If the third person is being directly quoted, then it is called direct speech. In order to write a ...

"China’s first rocket recovery attempt achieved its expected technical objectives." A lot of articles that discuss China's private launch companies put the word "private" in inverted commas (like that ...

For as long as I can remember, we, the Bangladeshi people, have struggled to understand where our inverted commas should go. This I have observed in my students’ argumentative essays -- “My name is ...

Dots and inverted commas have come to confound political parties, who are seeking to identify rebels during the 2017 presidential poll. Prime Minister Narendra Modi offers sweet to Ram Nath Kovind on ...

Reporting other people’s speeches or writings is a technical exercise in which punctuation marks play strategic roles. Whether it is in direct speech or the indirect, punctuation marks such as the ...

All hopes are pinned on the Constituent Assembly (CA) polls. God forbid if there’s any disturbance, the country will plunge into a massive civil war. But if all goes well and the elections are held ...