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Stannum wrote: G'day Anon, My English teacher told me that when quoting spoken text I should use "..." and when quoting written text I should use '...'. See ya Stannum I've never heard of that. But I do know about the use of single quotes within double quotes. My mother said, "If you...

G'day Anon, My English teacher told me that when quoting spoken text I should use "..." and when quoting written text I should use '...'. See ya Stannum

Goodman wrote: Jackson6612 wrote: Goodman wrote: Mr. Liat, Since you disagreed with the sentence by Marius, I just simply wanted to share my opinions on the usage with ‘by” and “no later than” in a context that is easy for those who disagreed to visualize. Please - I mean please! Stop...

Thank you, CalifJim. (Note: The quoted content may contain some unintentional typing mistakes.) In the post titled "Articles: 'in a world' vs. 'in the world'", How2die wrote this (also quoting the following that was part of his inquiry): IN THOSE parts of the planet that might nonce have been...

"That the difference between the beautiful and the ugly (...) has important psychological effect is a commonplace, except in the field of city planning. If it be not quoting the Devil for Scripture, Nietzsche has written: "All that is ugly weakens and afflicts man (...)" Is "Quoting the Devil...

While doing some reported/indirect speech stuff (again!) lots of questions has come to my mind. Here are some of them. 1/ 'I never eat meat', (Bill said/explained) -> turns into -> Bill said/explained (that) he never ate meat. - This is the normal way in which most of us would...