By Quotation marks, Articles

Thank you GG and MH. You all(or 'two'?) are well at searching for something by search engine, but MH's skill seems better(or seems to be better?). Kiding(or 'just have a joke/kid.'?). Maybe you often use the search tools, just like me. Actually, but, if you ask me that what is preceded a...

1 - They should both have articles. Sometimes, in things like a glossary, the articles will be omitted and you don't need complete sentences, but when they are written out as sentences, they should have an article. 2 - If the father literally calls her "Soccer Ball" as though it were a name,...

Here is another interesting question. From what i understand, italics replaced the need for underlining for books and using quotation marks for periodicals. Is this true. What about leaflets or handouts. "The tracking form and Dental Progress Notes were changed." Dental Progress Notes may...

#1 is not necessarily correct; it depends on which side of the Atlantic it is composed. BrE puts the period outside the closing quotation mark. Otherwise, your examples are fine; a colon would be somewhat misused here.Personally, I would go to reported speech except for longer quotations--...

1-- Capitalize; if the quotation is set off syntactically from the matrix text by a comma, semicolon, or colon, the first word is capitalized, irrespective of its status in the original text. 2-- Mormons; no apostrophe 3-- Capitalize as in #1 4-- She is saying it. BrE (I believe) would...

I am going through an article. The premise is: Since the mid-1970, the number of unionized public-section clerical workers, most of whom are women, has increased 22 percent. Then the author lists some crucial reasons for the upsurge in unionization, and claims "the absence...

Hello, I don't understand the way speakers are mentioned after quotation marks in a dialogue. ( A ) "Is it possible for one of you to make a life decision without wondering what Papa will find wrong with it?" I said. ( B ) "Oh, great," said Jeff. "Ellen Guldren renounces paternal...

To me, the rules regarding punctuation around quotation marks are not always logical. To 'remember' them, I extracted the following from Webster's Third New International Dictionary: 13.1 Direct quotations: "When I am dead," said one of the keenest minds, "lay a sword on my coffin." 13.2 In...

If you are writing on a computer, italicize book titles, names of periodicals, music album titles. Use quotation marks for short stories, article titles, song titles. If the letter is handwritten, italics are replaced by underlining.

I saw this article from the web and I think it is worth to post part of the article in this forum. Following is the article ...AND REPORTED SPEECH Dear English Doctor, Please explain about word changes in reported speech. If you say to me "My sister is going to Chiang Mai", I can report...