what type of internal punctuation is used to indicate someone is speaking? a. apostrophe b. semicolon c. exclamation mark d. quotation marks
Quotation marks, also called quotes, quote marks, quotemarks, speech marks, inverted commas or talking marks, are punctuation marks used in pairs in various writing systems to set off direct speech, a quotation, or a phrase. The pair consists of an opening quotation mark and a closing quotation mark, which may or may not be the same character.