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11.41pm
6 December 2012
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Hello!
So, awhile ago, I posted something about starting a grammar thread. Here it is, the place for all of your grammar questions and comments.
I have a question myself. Say I'm reading a book/article/whatever and it says this:
Blah blah blah blah. He said, "She said, 'Blah blah blah.' Blah blah." Blah blah blah blah blah.
I need to quote the part in blue. I write, "He said, 'She said, ?Blah blah blah.? Blah blah.'"
What punctuation do I use where the ?s are?
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12.10am
26 March 2012
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You just alternate between them. So you'd go back to double quotation marks as follows:
"He said, 'she said, "blah blah blah." Blah blah.'"
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12.12am
6 December 2012
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2.02am
1 November 2012
Offline Another trick is to put the whole quotation in italics and maybe also block quote (indented left and right relative to main text) -- this would supply the first quotation, so to speak. If you have four levels of quotation, then you could pull out Ben's additional suggestion.
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6.58am
14 December 2012
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I just realized something amazing! I'm not learning grammar in English!
Shouldn't I, though? We haven't done anything like that in the past two years 
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7.03am
27 December 2012
Offline EDIT: My advise is to keep reading a lot of stuff.
11.00am
26 March 2012
Offline Funny Paper said
Another trick is to put the whole quotation in italics and maybe also block quote (indented left and right relative to main text) -- this would supply the first quotation, so to speak. If you have four levels of quotation, then you could pull out Ben's additional suggestion.
Indeed. I was going to suggest block quoting and indentation, but I only ever use that for the exegesis of a particularly long quote (three or more lines).
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Offline Ben Ramon said
Indeed. I was going to suggest block quoting and indentation, but I only ever use that for the exegesis of a particularly long quote (three or more lines).
What a helpful thread...now I know what "exegesis" means.
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5.52am
27 December 2012
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12.37am
5 November 2011
Offline EDSLocklear said
I just realized something amazing! I'm not learning grammar in English!
Shouldn't I, though? We haven't done anything like that in the past two years
Neither am I. We had one grammar day this year, which my English teacher got very exited about it, and all day we learned how to correctly use a comma! Sorry, but I'm in tenth grade, you're only about six years late on that. Is it really necessary to be teaching fifteen and sixteen year olds how to use a comma? Grammar day was a huge disappointment for me. I was hoping we would be dissecting sentences, finding parts of speech and clauses, and all that.
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