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"You also need to close your quote". I now realise my mistake regarding the closing of the quotation marks . Thank you.
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There are some expressions ("Me too", for example) that contain grammar "errors", but they are so extremely commonly used that you should simply learn to use them. Hi Amy, I don't want to start to discuss
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I find these rules at http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/quotes.asp very helpful.
Rule 1
Periods and commas always go inside quotation marks,
even inside single
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anonymous
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U¿ytkownik "Max" (Email Removed) napisa³ w wiadomo¶ci Is this grammatically correct? Hi "Christina" following the information that you required to me: Name Addrress etc... There are a few mistakes and inclarities
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If you go to the AUE materials, CJ, and search ... I'd say that's about as good as you're gonna get. Thanks, Bob. That was actually quite helpful. For a change. BTW, Americans call them "quotation marks." I dislike calling
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It seems that question marks and exclamation marks always go where they naturally belong, but full stops and commas are less clear-cut. With brackets, OTOH, they always go where they naturally belong. Is there a rationale for this? Given that
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Michael West wrote on 01 Jun 2004: They look identical on my newsreader. Tick and double-tick look better to me than those allegedly "smart quotes", however. Some incorrect spellings look better to me than their "correct"
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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
5 yr 267 days ago
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CyberCypher pirouetted and came up with: You are not clever enough to catch anyone but a ... see me accept your support for anything I might say. Speaking of clever, John read the comments and came up with a simple and convincing explanation in
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cybercypher
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Greetings. Section 1.2 of this document states "Double quotation marks ... always come in pairs", but I believe there is an exception from this rule when a quotation spans several paragraphs. Correct you are. It didn't occur to me to
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