Charlie Bernstein
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- Jan 28, 2009
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- English
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No, you don't. It would be a mistake. Quotation marks mark quotes. That's why they're called quotation marks.. . .
I, a non-native speaker of English, need the quotation marks to interpret the "fast" as a noun.
They are not for marking nouns, verbs, adjectives, prepositions, or anything else.
Native speakers often put quotation marks around words on signs simply because they think they look good. They're wrong.
Here are some examples of how NOT to use quotation marks: Bad quotation marks