Speech marks are these things. They have a few different uses, such as showing speech or to show you are quoting someone. Here is Rachel reporting. Rachel is typing up some breaking news.

While the speech may have ... as that marks the day Lincoln gave this address in Gettysburg in 1863. For the remainder of the ...

When you are writing, inverted commas or speech marks go before and after direct speech, surrounding what was said. Direct speech is when the exact words that have been said by a person are ...