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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
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Can you call anything that is in quotation marks a quote -- whether quoting what someone said or highlighting some unusal use of a word?
1. And would you say the following is good?
I don't like those students who think their main task in school is "sit in the chair and fill the eight-hour-time." The lazy "sit in the chair and fill the eight-hour-time" should be replaced with a work-to-produce-some-result time.
Many students seeem to have this attitude "sit in the chair and dream aways the hours" is OK and I say that that is not OK.
2. How would say those in quotes in a speaking situation? Would you resort to the use of "quote" and "unquote" to indicate the quotation marks? I think not becasue I believe this "quote and unquote" is used when you have used a word/phrase in a strange fashion to emphasize it
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Joe is a "Superman" type. -- when spoken, "Joe is a "quote" and "unquote" Superman type.
Should I say? Joe is a "quote" - Superman - and "unquote" type, putting the "unquote" after the word "Superman" or before it?
Can you call anything that is in quotation marks a quote -- whether quoting what someone said or highlighting some unusal use of a word?
1. And would you say the following is good?
I don't like those students who think their main task in school is "sit in the chair and fill the eight-hour-time." The lazy "sit in the chair and fill the eight-hour-time" should be replaced with a work-to-produce-some-result time.
Many students seeem to have this attitude "sit in the chair and dream aways the hours" is OK and I say that that is not OK.
2. How would say those in quotes in a speaking situation? Would you resort to the use of "quote" and "unquote" to indicate the quotation marks? I think not becasue I believe this "quote and unquote" is used when you have used a word/phrase in a strange fashion to emphasize it
.
Joe is a "Superman" type. -- when spoken, "Joe is a "quote" and "unquote" Superman type.
Should I say? Joe is a "quote" - Superman - and "unquote" type, putting the "unquote" after the word "Superman" or before it?
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I would call something "a quote" or "a quotation" only if it was actually quoting what someone had said. Your sentence looks pretty much OK to me. " This lazy attitude should be replaced with "work to produce some results".
- I would call something "a quote" or "a quotation" only if it was actually quoting what someone had said.
- Your sentence looks pretty much OK to me.
- " This lazy attitude should be replaced with "work to produce some results".
- When reading text I would, where necessary for clarity, say "quote" and "unquote" whatever the purpose of the quote marks.
- If it was a quotation of what someone had said, then I might alternatively say "open quote" and "close quote".
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I would call something "a quote" or "a quotation" only if it was actually quoting what someone had said.
Your sentence looks pretty much OK to me. If I was being picky, I might, still preserving the quote style, suggest instead:
I don't like those students who think their main task in school is "sit in the chair and fill the eight hours." This lazy attitude should be replaced
Your sentence looks pretty much OK to me. If I was being picky, I might, still preserving the quote style, suggest instead:
I don't like those students who think their main task in school is "sit in the chair and fill the eight hours." This lazy attitude should be replaced
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