. If those quotation marks are for emphasis, they show a major misunderstanding of punctuation. I do not think it is a widespread practice-- at least not an acceptable one. Underline for emphasis. Quotation marks show unusual use of a word. Here,

When writing something with text styling (e.g. bold, italics, underline, strikethrough), followed by a punctuation mark, which is better? <i>Some text!</i> or <i>Some text</i> !

Thanks Goodman! Could anyone tell me, in descriptive writing what tense usually writer choose. And Guys please reply my 2nd post last two sentenses as well. And explain we can separate verb and subject i.e mirror and curtain, by using comma for

1) What should I replace my work with?-- No title is required for TOEFL essays; if you need a title, it should announce to the reader the topic of your essay. 2) the parentless children-- these are not previously mentioned or specific children

In dialogue, punctuation goes inside the quotation marks: "I know," he replied, "but I got lost." Quoting titles - either underline, or italicize, or put into quotation marks. You need to go through and check - there are many missing quotation

Yes, terminal punctuation inside the quote is American, and the rest of the world follows the logical practice of placing them outside. Anyway, the single/double quote is also, I think, an American thing - we just about NEVER use single quotes

The formatting that you use for the title of a novel depends upon your audience, but for most formal writing it is fine to underline or italicize book titles. In my opinion italics are less distracting than underlining, but if you're publishing

Anonymous wrote: When referring to a novel in a paragraph, what is the proper punctuation - do you underline the title only, do you underline and have quotations, do you only have quotations? Also are all the words of the novel's title

When referring to a novel in a paragraph, what is the proper punctuation - do you underline the title only, do you underline and have quotations, do you only have quotations? Also are all the words of the novel's title capitalized? HB

I wanted to write a formal thank you letter to a newspaper; however, I am unsure of the underline/quotation/italicize rule when referring to the newspaper as a business. For example, the sentence below refers to the newspaper as a business and