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Here is the rule in American English: (different sources are consistent on this rule, and I suspect British English has the same rule.) When both the whole sentence and the unit enclosed in quotation marks are questions or exclamations, the
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alpheccastars
250 days ago
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Hi, We have but skimmed the surface. eg this is from http://www.writtensound.com/laughter.htm Clive Laughter When you try and write the sound of a person laughing, the standard "haha!" does not always capture the true sound and meaning.
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clive
292 days ago
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YEE-HAA! Boy howdy, a hundred people killed in one day ... did I really just REALLY see that trailer? ME! Death is too good for them. Seems that most of the outrage on the Imdb forums is at the lack of "respect" for American soldiers.
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I would mention that exclamation marks are not to be used so lightly in English as in German, and never more than one. The same rule applies to educated German. And most probably it does not apply to uneducated English as well. You may want to
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gerd thieme
5 yr 284 days ago
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OK, since we're on the topic of spaces, punctuation and proof-reading...what's the deal with double-spaces after periods, question marks and exclamation marks? Don't. I don't, but many Americans do. I find this extremely annoying.
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I understand that a declarative sentence containing a declarative quote would look something like Word word word "word word word." But what about in other cases, where the sentence and the quote inside it have differerent punctuation?
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michael west
6 yr 98 days ago
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