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Quotation mark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Quotation marks or inverted commas (informally referred to as quotes and speech marks ) are punctuation marks used in pairs to set off speech, a quotation, a phrase, or a word. They come as a p...
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On the Use of Quotation Marks, 1994, Etc.: A Review of General Semantics, Vol. 51, No 1, Spring 1994. This paper illustrates and explains standard usage of quotation marks and urges general semanticists to become consistent with the majority culture. ... First I will illustrate the use-mention distinction. The formal version...
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Quotation marks go around ; Words that are spoken. Just make sure that ; Your pencil's not broken. I'm telling you and hey; I'm not jokin'; Put them around; The words that are spoken. ... If I say to Bob, "Turn the door knob."; Put quotation marks around; The words I say to Bob.
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RFC 1 - Host Software ... Do you use quotation marks when you are stating a thought, for example... Why was this happening to me? What is wrong? How am I going to handle this? I am writing a story using narration so the above sentences are my exact thoughts as I am telling the story.
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The British army has long known that the Basra police were infiltrated by militia, and it appears that two special forces soldiers (my guess, SAS members) were undercover, either tracking militia members or planning for some "wet work" (more quotation marks!) before ending up in a stand-off with police officers.
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Quotation marks are used to indicate the beginning and end of a quote. They tell the reader when you've used written material from other sources or direct speech. ... A direct quotation is when you've used an item verbatim from another text. Use quotation marks at the beginning and end of a direct quotation.
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