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Sonia10 Posted 23 years ago
Grammar

Quotation mark

What's the difference between using single quotes and double quotes. when to use what? Where do i put the period(.) before or after my quotes?
  

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) inside double quotes: "Hello," she said. The exception is if there is some special need to make sure that the reader not think that the punctuation was part of the original source you are quoting, then you put the punctuation outside the quotation marks I think the British practice is just the opposite of ours. K.

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  • ) inside double quotes: "Hello," she said.
  • The exception is if there is some special need to make sure that the reader not think that the punctuation was part of the original source you are quoting, then you put the punctuation outside the quotation marks I think the British practice is just the opposite of ours.
  • K.
  • is to put punctuation outside the quotation marks: In Britain, they call quotation marks "inverted commas".
  • ) One frequent use of single quotes is to isolate a quote within a quote.
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In American English, the standard practice is to put the punctuation (period, comma, etc.) inside double quotes: "Hello," she said. The exception is if there is some special need to make sure that the reader not think that the punctuation was part of the original source you are quoting, then you put the punctuation outside the quotation marks

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