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Snarf Posted 13 years ago
Grammar
Quotation Mark Layering
How do you deal with layers of quotation marks? For example:
"It says, ''Jury' does not mean what it normally means,'" John said.
Should those single quotes around "jury" be removed, since the quote itself is already in single quotes due to them being within the confines of double quotes, given someone is speaking? Or would that be bad, since in the document he is quoting, "Jury" is put in quotation marks as a word being referred to as a word? Or perhaps they should be made into double quotation marks since they are within single ones. I just don't want to get confusing. The whole thing is already in double ones.
Thanks.
"It says, ''Jury' does not mean what it normally means,'" John said.
Should those single quotes around "jury" be removed, since the quote itself is already in single quotes due to them being within the confines of double quotes, given someone is speaking? Or would that be bad, since in the document he is quoting, "Jury" is put in quotation marks as a word being referred to as a word? Or perhaps they should be made into double quotation marks since they are within single ones. I just don't want to get confusing. The whole thing is already in double ones.
Thanks.
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I think I’ve read somewhere that alternating is the way situations like this should be handled. "It says, ’ "Jury" does not mean what it normally means ’ ", John said.
- I think I’ve read somewhere that alternating is the way situations like this should be handled.
- "It says, ’ "Jury" does not mean what it normally means ’ ", John said.
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I think I’ve read somewhere that alternating is the way situations like this should be handled.
"It says, ’"Jury" does not mean what it normally means’", John said.
"It says, ’"Jury" does not mean what it normally means’", John said.
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Yeah, I guess that's the only reasonable option because completely removing the quotes from around Jury would be to mis-punctuate the quote, I suppose.
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