Sep 10, 2026 · 1 min · 3 segments
Episode summary: Don't. But if you must, here's how. Learn more on today's episode of Grammar Minute!
Something like, he said, I asked her if she was going home, and she told me, I'll head home after lunch.
The first thing to know about nested quotes is that they should be avoided if at all possible.
They're clumsy and hard to follow, but if you must have one, the rule for quotation marks is that the first outer marks should be double quotes.
I've never seen a triple-nested quote, and I hope I never do, as it's extremely confusing.
But the bottom line is, alternate quote styles, starting with double quotes and switching to single quotes.
If both quotes end at the same point, be sure to type out and close both sets of quotation marks.
Something like, he said, I asked her if she was going home, and she told me, I'll head home after lunch.
The first thing to know about nested quotes is that they should be avoided if at all possible.
They're clumsy and hard to follow, but if you must have one, the rule for quotation marks is that the first outer marks should be double quotes.
I've never seen a triple-nested quote, and I hope I never do, as it's extremely confusing.
But the bottom line is, alternate quote styles, starting with double quotes and switching to single quotes.
If both quotes end at the same point, be sure to type out and close both sets of quotation marks.
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