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Ellen Jovin is the author of “Rebel With a Clause: Tales and Tips From a Roving Grammarian” and cofounder of Syntaxis, a communication-skills consulting firm.

Quotation marks have a hierarchy, grammar expert June Casagrande notes, and she advises how to put single quotes in their place.