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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

Do you need to place quotation marks

Hi,

For the sentence below, do you feel that you need to have a pair of quotation marks around the phrase "Speaking Strategy," assuming that it is a phrase that has an internal significance?

Carefully organized "Speaking Strategy" sections provide ...

I think it is OK not to place those quotation marks.

Carefully organized Speaking Strategy sections provide ...

What is the guideline on this?
  

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Here in Turkey we were taught that we can use quotation marks as well as italizing or underlining the word or words.

  • Here in Turkey we were taught that we can use quotation marks as well as italizing or underlining the word or words.
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Here in Turkey we were taught that we can use quotation marks as well as italizing or underlining the word or words.
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To me, isolating the phrase with quotation marks indicates it has some kind of corporate existence. I would omit them unless there is a contextual need to have them.

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