• Re: Would this situation use it's or its

  punctuation when using quotes in a sentence? If I was writing and had: Someone said "blah blah blah blah." Does the period go in the quotes to finish off the sentence, or outside?
  ESL General English Grammar Questions by guest 5 yr 128 days ago Punctuation

• Re: Need a verb for "creating a campus"

  verb any suggestions? Use 'campusization' (in quotes, the first time you use it). I'll ponder that: I'm leaning towards "campusing" (in quotes), as it seems cleaner than
  alt.usage.english by harvey van sickle 6 yr 61 days ago Countries, United Kingdom, Great Britain

• Re: period ouside of quotation marks?

  Doesn't it seem silly to put quotes around a single word that happens to end the sentence and include the period to end the entire sentence inside those "quotes?" I can't believe
  alt.usage.english by donna richoux 6 yr 23 days ago Commas, Question Marks, Quotation Marks, Sentences, Countries, United States, American, Punctuation

• Re: Odd hyphens.

  How about "convent-turned-women's-"refuge"? Why the scare quotes ...
  that the place is a communal living situation for lesbians? Don't the square quotes more clearly imply
  alt.usage.english by gary g. taylor 6 yr 6 days ago

• Re: Is this sentence correct?

  that sparkled. If you put quotes around one (Gem), you should be consistent and use quotes for all the names.
  ESL General English Grammar Questions by alpheccastars 146 days ago Sentences

• Re: Proper grammar

  Both are natural to me. Your punctuation is wonky. You don't need question marks inside the quotes, you need one question mark at the end of your question, outside the quotes. (Unusually
  ESL General English Grammar Questions by mr wordy 121 days ago Grammar, Punctuation, Question Marks, Writing, Sentences

• Re: Totally off very dark

  The structure does not make sense to me. It could POSSIBLY be ' totally off "very dark" ' (note the quotes within quotes), meaning is is not 'very dark' at all, as perhaps the speaker had been told
  ESL General English Grammar Questions by mister micawber 45 days ago

• Re: Quotation mark

  double quotes: "Hello," she said. The exception is if there is some special need to make sure ...
  on any of this.) One frequent use of single quotes is to isolate a quote within a quote
  ESL General English Grammar Questions by mike a. 6 yr 3 days ago American English, Commas, Punctuation, Quotation Marks, Quoting

• Re: What the difference between " " and ' '

  , an American thing - we just about NEVER use single quotes except for the quote-within-a-quote situation described by Philip. Even for a single word, I use double quotes. It's logical to me to use single quotes
  ESL General English Grammar Questions by grammar geek 2 yr 204 days ago Articles, Difference Between, Punctuation, Underline

• Re: at the speed of light

  the colon being used with direct quotes in British news articles, for example. I also seem ...
  , though. Maybe Nona knows more about the colon usage with quotes........ I'm curious about
  ESL General English Grammar Questions by maple 3 yr 8 days ago Articles, Colons, Commas, Paragraphs
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