July 4 will always be a holiday in my house, Noone can actually take away your birthday!the great part of that holiday is my 4 year old thinks the parades and fireworks are for his bday, he always wants to know why people are at HIS parade.
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Britain is Repossessing the U.S.A.
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Originally Posted By: Ineligible"himself or herself",I always take punctuation marks outside quotes. That's wrong, at least as I was taught (not that I always follow it). Periods and commas always go inside the quotes, question marks it depends._________________________________________________________________ I found this with a quick search.
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to be more accurate, you puntuate the quotation within the quotation marks, you punctuate the sentence containing the quotation outside the marks, with the exception of the closing puctuation wich you do not repeat...He said "I love you." on one occasion, "I hate you, I'm leaving." on yet another.ok, that's a bit of a clunky example but you see the point. Wow, this is taxing my memory a bit and I'm generally pretty good with punctuation. (makes up for my spelling issues)
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I think there may also be a difference between US and British practice on this. I would myself writeHe said "I love you" on one occasion, "I hate you, I'm leaving" on yet another.Including the full stops (US: periods) in this example doesn't fit the way you would say it.I would writeHe said, "I hate you, I'm leaving".rather thanHe said, "I hate you, I'm leaving."which I think would be the usual US practice, and also common in British writing. But I don't think it anything worth being pedantic over.
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very true, I may ve been heavy handed with the periodsall will be made more clear with this explanation of phonetic punctuation
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In the U.S., when you have a quote at the beginning, it is done this way:"Hello everyone, my name is Joe," said Bob.When you write embedded quotes you use this format:He said, "I love you," on one occasion, "I hate you, I'm leaving," on yet another. You need a comma at the end of that. However, I'm pretty sure you can put exclamation points and question marks within those instead of the comma but not a period and still not capitalize at the end of the quote. When you write a quote that is at the end it is in this format:As I ran, I heard someone say, "I'm leaving."The thing I'm wondering about is in a situation like this:The correct word to use is "cow". My gut feeling is that the period goes at the end, as it is not a direct quoting of someone, but I'm not entirely sure. Same thing goes for characters, though I think you use single quotes when using a character in that format (You missed the 'a'.).
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There is a tendency developing to use double quotes for direct quotations, and single quotes to mark out a word as 'different' in some way. However some publishing houses use single quotes for direct speech because they take less room and are less obtrusive.
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ahhh, you just reminded me of a serious pet peeve!!the use of quatation marks for accentuation. this happens on menues, flyers and especially on those shitty, portable signs that businesses rent for their front lawn!eg;come in today for a "free" consultationtry out new "spicy" chicken strips
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One of the most annoying things I see almost every day is people walking around with hands free kits for their phones but they hold the microphone in one hand and their phone in the other. It completely defeats the purpose and really ticks me off!!
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Ha! I've seen that.Actually, I hate those handsets.Not sure why. I think I have some sort of judgment about the people who use them.
