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Panda blue 483 Posted 5 years ago
Grammar

Correct usage.

https://www.grammar-monster.com/lessons/quotation (speech)_marks_single_or_double.htm

In the resource the first example has: He sells 'fresh' fish. (meaning it isn't fresh?)


Is this similar to: I 'accidentally' pushed my rich wife off a cliff face for the insurance.

But it could just mean it is fresh fish with fresh being emphasized, so perhaps it's bad example.







  

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Your link does not work, but I found the line by searching. htm panda blue 483 Is this similar to: I 'accidentally' pushed my rich wife off a cliff face for the insurance. To all appearances, yes.

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  • Your link does not work, but I found the line by searching.
  • htm panda blue 483 Is this similar to: I 'accidentally' pushed my rich wife off a cliff face for the insurance.
  • To all appearances, yes.
  • panda blue 483 But it could just mean it is fresh fish with fresh being emphasized, so perhaps it's bad example.
  • Grammar Monster used that as an example of what some people do when they are careless about quotation marks—sort of an inside joke.
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Your link does not work, but I found the line by searching. In case there was something wrong with your link, I copied and pasted it from Firefox here:

https://www.grammar-monster.com/lessons/quotation_(speech)_marks_single_or_double.htm

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This link doesn't work.

https://www.grammar-monster.com/lessons/quotation (speech)_marks_single_or_double.htm

In the resource the first example has: He sells

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