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I was taught in school, when I was growing up, that the ending quotation mark always goes after the period. However, in college, I'm noticing that's not always what is happening. Same as when I sometimes read news articles. For example:
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stewart gordon
5 yr 258 days ago
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I was taught in school, when I was growing up, that the ending quotation mark always goes after the period. However, in college, I'm noticing that's not always what is happening. Same as when I sometimes read news articles. For example:
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I was taught in school, when I was growing up, that the ending quotation mark always goes after the period. However, in college, I'm noticing that's not always what is happening. Same as when I sometimes read news articles. For example:
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There are different conventions, but I've always used the MLA Handbook for writing papers. This is what it says:
"Use quotation marks for the titles of works published within larger works. Such titles include the names of articles, essays, short
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Do you mean in the newspaper itself? If you do, each newspaper usually has its own style for headlines. Invariably, it is a bold typeface (for attention), and will usually be a larger size than the normal text. It may also be all capitals, and/or
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Would you similarly write "The Beatles" appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show . I first saw "The Beatles" in 1965. I would, but not necessarily using quotation marks. I took your example to imply that you would use them. How about
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sand typed thus: Did you include the colon? Makes a big difference to Google. OK. I included the colon now and got the same stuff. I also read a long article involving the Buddha ... as a devotee of English, somehow made the whole tract
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skitt
6 yr 20 days ago
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(Restored important: {a = article}) None of these examples is German. "Ausschimpfen" is transitive. You cannot use it without a direct object. But there *is* a direct object (= accusative) in every sentence. Didn't you notice or
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reinhold rey aman
6 yr 35 days ago
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I work in a German research centre, and as one of only two native English speakers, I'm frequently called upon ... to German speakers. It addresses common translation problems such as "bzw.", plus differences between German and
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helmut richter
6 yr 38 days ago
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In the following three sentences are they punctuated correctly? Thanks for any help you can give me.
1. After he began the meeting he said " I am not staying."
(Should there be a comma after said? Should the period be inside of the
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