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Believer Posted 19 years ago
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What should I know?
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00 Let us pretend that I am quoting what someone has said a few minutes ago. 02 br
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00 "Look at your situation -- and be utterly amazed as to how everything is changed over the past two years -- and pray that not all changes you might have will not be all that detrimental." 02 br
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00 Now, setting aside the ambiguity of the content, who is determining how much one can exercise his personal choice in writing the content in quotes? For the sentence above, one can contend some other punctuation marks, other than the dashes, can be used. When quoting something, what shoud I remember? 0-
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00 Let us pretend that I am quoting what someone has said a few minutes ago. 02 br
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00 "Look at your situation -- and be utterly amazed as to how everything is changed over the past two years -- and pray that not all changes you might have will not be all that detrimental." 02 br
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00 Now, setting aside the ambiguity of the content, who is determining how much one can exercise his personal choice in writing the content in quotes? For the sentence above, one can contend some other punctuation marks, other than the dashes, can be used. When quoting something, what shoud I remember? 0-
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0 01 blockquote 01 cite 10 Believer 12 cite 12 br 10 Hi, 12 br 12 br 10 Let us pretend that I am quoting what someone has 10 said 10 a few minutes ago. " 12 br 12 br 10 Now, setting aside the ambiguity of the content, who is determining how much one can exercise his personal choice in writing the content in quotes? For the sentence above, one can contend some other punctuation marks, other than the dashes, can be used.
- 0 01 blockquote 01 cite 10 Believer 12 cite 12 br 10 Hi, 12 br 12 br 10 Let us pretend that I am quoting what someone has 10 said 10 a few minutes ago.
- " 12 br 12 br 10 Now, setting aside the ambiguity of the content, who is determining how much one can exercise his personal choice in writing the content in quotes?
- For the sentence above, one can contend some other punctuation marks, other than the dashes, can be used.
- When quoting something, 11 b 10 what shoud I remember 12 b 10 ?
- 12 br 12 blockquote 10 01 font 01 b 00 When using "_ 01 i 00 _____ 02 i 00 ", be sure that you quote perfectly, as far as words are concerned.
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01 cite 10 Believer 12 cite 12 br
10 Hi, 12 br
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10 Let us pretend that I am quoting what someone has 10 said 10 a few minutes ago. 11 font 10 [ 12 font 11 font 10 not written] 12 font 12 br
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10 "Look at your situation --
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0 Absolutely. If it was SAID, there were no dashes, commas, periods, etc. Only pauses or intonation to tell you what punctuation would be appropriate. It's up to you to use the punctuation that keeps the original meaning. 0-
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