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Quotation marks for thoughts?

0If, within a text, there is a passage in which a person is performing an action and then thinking about something, would you use quotation marks around the thought and a question mark at the end of the question within the thought?02br
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00e.g. She sat on the rock and looked out to sea. 01u00If only Mark were with her. Would he love the view as much as she did?02u00 Instead she only had dull Kevin to share it with.0-
  

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g. She sat on the rock and looked out to sea. 11u 10If only Mark were with her.

— Lazarus

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  • She sat on the rock and looked out to sea.
  • 11u 10If only Mark were with her.
  • 12br 12blockquote 12br 00 I have seen authors use all kinds of methods to punctuate thoughts.
  • Some use the same punctuation as dialogue, but I've also seen stars, slashes and single quotes framing thoughts.
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01cite10Anonymous12cite10If, within a text, there is a passage in which a person is performing an action and then thinking about something, would you use quotation marks around the thought and a question mark at the end of the question within the thought?12br
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0Quite commenly authors use this 02br
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01i00'****" 02i00she thought,02br
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00The italic text is used to distinguish between normal speech and thoughts, even though the "she thought" after the thought does give it away many authors prefer the method. I know when I am reading books i quite like how they write text in italics. 0-
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