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Vincent Teo Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Punctuation

Can I say,

(a) " Help ! Help! " Shouted / shouted the accident victim.

(b) Help! Help! I'm drowning. / drawning!

(c) " Help! Help! I'm drowning," said the boy.
  

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(a) "Help ! " shouted the accident victim. This one is weird because you follow puncutation with lower case, but it's coming off a quote to continue a sentence, which can't stand on its own.

— WBTtheFROG

  • (a) "Help !
  • " shouted the accident victim.
  • This one is weird because you follow puncutation with lower case, but it's coming off a quote to continue a sentence, which can't stand on its own.
  • (b) Help!
  • Help!
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(a) "Help ! Help!" shouted the accident victim.
This one is weird because you follow puncutation with lower case, but it's coming off a quote to continue a sentence, which can't stand on its own.

(b) Help! Help! I'm drowning!

(c) "Help! Help! I'm drowning," said the boy.
-is correct
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Interjections (Oh! Help! Look out!) are the only set of words which you can include, followed by an exclamation point (!), and not have it count as the end of a sentence but rather as just another regular word. These terms can also count as their own sentence. "Help!" is a one word gramatically correct sentence, which is understood to be in the second person (YOU are doing the action; it's a
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So, which is the correct version for (a) ? I can't get what you mean:

(a) "Help ! Help!" shouted the accident victim.

This one is weird because you follow puncutation with lower case, but it's coming off a quote to continue a sentence, which can't stand on its own.
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The sentence as I have it there is correct, in all aspects:
(a) "Help ! Help!" shouted the accident victim.
I was just saying that the rule about capitalization is a little tricky.
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