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Studyhard Posted 21 years ago
Grammar

several quotes in a sentence

Help! What would be the proper way (referring to commas and quotation marks) to write this sentence:

A few of our favorite quotes include "Rome wasn't built in a day", "Don't be fancy, be good", "Don't play helter-skelter", and "This game won't be a cake walk."

Thanks for your help!!
  

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Hello, Studyhard, and welcome to the English Forums! I know opinions vary in this field. One might argue about the need of a comma before "and".

— Pieanne

  • Hello, Studyhard, and welcome to the English Forums!
  • I know opinions vary in this field.
  • One might argue about the need of a comma before "and".
  • The quotation marks are OK.
  • As to the rest, there could (just could) be a colon after include.
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Hello, Studyhard, and welcome to the English Forums!

I know opinions vary in this field. One might argue about the need of a comma before "and". The quotation marks are OK.

As to the rest, there could (just could) be a colon after include. I personally capitalize the first letter of a quotation only when the quotation immediately follows a full stop, but then I may be wro
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Pieanne
there could (just could) be a colon after include

I have finally learned the rule about the use of colons, Pieanne, (though I still can't seem to be a good boy all the time): the statement before a colon has to be a complete clause.

'A few of our favorite quotes include' (not complete enough to be followed by a colon).
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Ok, that's very useful, I'll keep it in mind... So, no capital to begin the quote, then?

(I wonder whether I can use these in French
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