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Silver air 799 Posted 9 years ago
Grammar

Exclamation and Capitalization

Hi!

Am I writing this correct? My spelling check says to capitalize the A after the exclamation.

Honest the maxim is “To thine own self be true”! as expressed in Shakespeare’s Hamlet.

Thanks a lot,

Gabriella

  

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silver air 799 My spelling check says to capitalize the A after the exclamation. That's because you have incorrectly placed the exclamation point outside the quotation mark. ” as expressed in Shakespeare’s Hamlet .

  • silver air 799 My spelling check says to capitalize the A after the exclamation.
  • That's because you have incorrectly placed the exclamation point outside the quotation mark.
  • ” as expressed in Shakespeare’s Hamlet .
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silver air 799My spelling check says to capitalize the A after the exclamation.

That's because you have incorrectly placed the exclamation point outside the quotation mark. It should read:

Honestly, the maxim is “To thine own self be true!” as expressed in Shakespeare’s

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