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Doumiar Posted 22 years ago
Grammar

Omitting quotation mark.

When I am reading Anderson's fairy tale, the flying trunk.
I found that the following sentense doesn't have both double quotation mark.

"'Now you are talking too fast,' spluttered the fire.

so I thought that it was mistyping. But it's not.
Plz tell me why sentence is right.
  

Top answer

Hello Doumiar I think this extract comes from the young merchant's tale within The Flying Trunk. In your text, the young merchant's tale itself appears to be enclosed in double quotation marks. ) is enclosed in single quotation marks.

  • Hello Doumiar I think this extract comes from the young merchant's tale within The Flying Trunk.
  • In your text, the young merchant's tale itself appears to be enclosed in double quotation marks.
  • ) is enclosed in single quotation marks.
  • g.
  • ' Under this convention, if the speech runs over several paragraphs, there is no closing quotation mark at the end of each paragraph, unless it's the final one.
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Hello Doumiar

I think this extract comes from the young merchant's tale within
The Flying Trunk.

In your text, the young merchant's tale itself appears to be enclosed
in double quotation marks. Speech within the young merchant's tale
('Now you are talking too fast' etc.) is enclosed in single quotation
marks.

Once upon a time, typesetters woul
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Wow.. I got it thanks

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