By Quotation marks, Verbs

try e.g. "so my mood"(quotation marks are required) and watch for verbs in front and after it

Hi, I think Mr. M once told me (or us) something to the effect that when you have to put a hyphenated word in the quotation marks, one mark is enough. I think what he meant is you can either choose the hyphen or quotation marks. Can we use both or should we always use just one? Adverbs as a...

Pls do your homework/research: Go to Google and make a search for "no threat to the government" (quotation marks are important) and see what verbs normally precede this construction.

Hi, 1. What's the difference between "quotes" and "quotation"? Consider "To be or not to be". The words are a quotation.The enclosing inverted commas are quotation marks, but this term is informally abbreviated to quotes. 2. What's the difference between "warn" and "warn of" (verbs)? 'Warn'...

Anonymous wrote:Hi, When you put quotaton marks around some words, does it make possible for that words to become kind of a noun? More examples please. 1. After the time allowed for "English only" is over. 2. a "-ing" Quotation marks do not change words into nouns. For example, 'run' is...

Hi, Please clear up some confusion. When do I use, I am going to go to the movies? as opposed to When do I use I am going to the movies? You can say it either way, as I think you realize. When you omit the 'go', it sounds like you are going now or in the relatively near future. In your...

Here is an article I’ve found in the interest of singularity and plurality. It may be helpful in answering some of the questions.___________________________________________________________ Is None Singular or Plural? By Diane Sandford Published July 21, 2003 Welcome to a new feature from...

Marius Hancu wrote: Marius Hancu wrote:Search yourself first at:http://www.nytimes.com/with:"keen on" "keen to"(quotation marks ARE important)you'll find many examples there. At the same site, you'll find that "eager on" isn't too much used with verbs, but that "eager to" is. Hi Marius, talk...

Search yourself first at: http://www.nytimes.com/ with: "keen on" "keen to" (quotation marks ARE important) you'll find many examples there. At the same site, you'll finnd that "eager on" isn't too much used with verbs, but that "eager to" is.

As Mr. M says, it's a matter of style. American style, for better for for worse (and most would agree it is often for the worse) is to ALWAYS place the period/full stop inside the quote marks. I am the one who had never heard of an ergative verb before I came to this site, but I'm also the one...