11.41pm

6 December 2012

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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6 December 2012

2.02am

1 November 2012

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

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

11.00am

26 March 2012

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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6.42pm

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14 April 2010

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

12.37am

5 November 2011

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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