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When are a pair of single quotation marks (‘example’) needed?

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when your stating quote from a text
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If you quote something from the text with dialogue or another quote in it, you use the single quotation mark instead.

For example,

“Cassidy thought for a second. ‘I have no idea what to do today,’ she announced.”
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