Thecandymancan  +  429466 Wed, 10 Oct 07 09:47 PM When you end a sentence with a quote that quotes a quote, does the single quote (') go first or last? e.g. "He said, 'She is sexy.'" I have seen it done both ways!  Thecandymancan Joined on Thu, Oct 4 2007 New Member 16

	Feebs11  +  429543 Thu, 11 Oct 07 01:00 AM  "He said, 'She is sexy'."  "He said, 'She is sexy!'."  "He said, 'She is sexy?'." Feebs11 Joined on Thu, Nov 23 2006 UK Veteran Member 5,015

	Yoong Liat  +  429809 Thu, 11 Oct 07 06:25 PM  Thecandymancan wrote: When you end a sentence with a quote that quotes a quote, does the single quote (') go first or last? e.g. "He said, 'She is sexy.'" ( In BrE, this would be the correct punctuation.) I have seen it done both ways!  Yoong Liat Joined on Mon, Sep 4 2006 Veteran Member 6,757 Punctuation

	Tanit  +  429997 Fri, 12 Oct 07 08:15 AM I attended my university in the UK and took courses in Academic English. They taught us that in BrE single quotes are generally used: ORIGINAL: Brown (1999:24) This is the most exciting and diverse culture I have ever come to know. QUOTATION: As Brown (1999:24) argues, 'this is the most exciting and diverse culture' one could ever meet. What if Brown had used quotations in his text? In case of nested quotations, we were taught to write them as below: ORIGINAL: Brown (1999:24) This is the most 'exciting' and 'diverse' culture I have ever come to know. NESTED QUOTATION: Following Brown (1999:24), 'this is the most "exciting" and "diverse" culture' .... I believe it's a matter of style, because I have come across different styles not only in American books and papers, but also in British ones. Consistency should be the only important thing. Tanit Joined on Mon, Jul 31 2006 Senior Member 3,031 There is no greater pain than to remember a happy time when one is in misery. (Dante) Universities

	Yoong Liat  +  429999 Fri, 12 Oct 07 09:24 AM  Neeraj Jain wrote: Hi Yoong, I guess that people in Singapore use BrE. You are right. Where do you live, Jain? Yoong Liat

	Feebs11  +  430061 Fri, 12 Oct 07 01:59 PM  Yoong Liat wrote:  Thecandymancan wrote: When you end a sentence with a quote that quotes a quote, does the single quote (') go first or last? e.g. "He said, 'She is sexy.'" ( In BrE, this would be the correct punctuation.) I have seen it done both ways!  With due respect this is not so. The punctuation ending the sentence comes between the close quote for the quotation and the close quote for the statement - unless there is an exclamation mark or question mark at the end of the quotation, in which case it is left within the close quote, and the normal ending punctuation is put as required, between the closing quotes, as in my examples above. Feebs11 Punctuation, Question Marks, Exclamation Marks