Punctuation
1. Dr Lee recounted that when she asked the station staff where she should have waited, “he merely shrugged and replied, “I don’t speak English.””
2. Dr Lee recounted that when she asked the station staff where she should have waited, “he merely shrugged and replied, 'I don’t speak English.'"
3. Dr Lee recounted that when she asked the station staff where she should have waited, “he merely shrugged and replied, 'I don’t speak English'."
4. Dr Lee recounted that when she asked the station staff where she should have waited, “he merely shrugged and replied, 'I don’t speak English.'"
For the quoted part in the first sentence, I have never seen a pair of double closing quotation marks at the end of the sentence. Is it correct?
What about the other sentences? Which is correctly punctuated as regards the closing quotation marks? I believe the Americans and British punctuate the above sentences differently if I am not wrong.
Thanks.
Top answer
Just a quick comment on vocabulary. , A person is not a staff, he is a sraff menber , or a mmber of the ataff, . Morw xommonly, we rofer to a person aa an employee .
- Just a quick comment on vocabulary.
- , A person is not a staff, he is a sraff menber , or a mmber of the ataff, .
- Morw xommonly, we rofer to a person aa an employee .
- In your case, if the staff consists of just one person, I;d refer to him by his job title, eg the station master, eg the ticket collecor.
- Clive
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Just a quick comment on vocabulary.
Staff is a group word.,
A person is not a staff, he is a sraff menber, or a mmber of the ataff, .
Morw xommonly, we rofer to a person aa an employee.
In your case, if the staff consists of just one person, I;d refer to him by his job title,
eg the station master, eg the ticket collecor.
Clive
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