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What do you use?

shed'n my skin said:
OK all you geniuses,
What is the difference in the two quotation marks?
"quote"
'quote'
How come there's two kinds?
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Well, first and foremost, to be able to "embed" quotes without getting confused....for example, if you're quoting someone who, in turn, is also quoting someone, you'd use the double quotes on the outside and the single quotes on the inside.

For example:

In Blazing Saddles, Howard Johnson said, "You know, Nietzsche said, 'Out of chaos comes order.' "

regards,
jazz
 
I remember that, but alas I took computer graphics, and it is one space. The computer adjusts for the previous double space. It was one of those mantra type things you learn in graphic layout "a computer is not a typewriter". I also used to work for one of this countries leading copy centers assiting with various newsletters and that was one thing we would edit. Escpecially if you layout your text justified it makes a really odd space. susang
 
It's nearly impossible for me to not double space at the end of a sentence, because I learned on a typewriter.
 
Nanci said:
Nanci said "I told Jen to use single quotes inside double quotes when Jen asked 'What is the difference?'"
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Where's your comma??? You need a comma after "said" when creating dialogue within the sentence...Geez...:grin01:
 
OK I alwyas get confused with where to put the comma or period in the quotes or after.
Also not picking on anyone but is the word learned not learnt?
 
This is why the english language is so hard to learn... At least in spanish there are consistent rules you follow.
If the plural of mouse is mice, why isn't the plural of house hice?
If the plural of goose is geese, why isn't the plural of moose meese?
 
As in "I love meeces to pieces"? At least, I think that was how it went. That was a long time ago...
 
susang said:
OK I alwyas get confused with where to put the comma or period in the quotes or after.
Also not picking on anyone but is the word learned not learnt?
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It depends on what you're trying to say. For example:

"Will you marry me?", Jane asked Daniel.

Jane shrieked, "Paul is a snob!!".

In above examples, the comma is outside of the quotes because it seperates the dialogue from the speaker. The question mark and exclamation points are inside the quotes, even though the sentencea aren't over, because they close the dialogue, but not the sentence. The periods at the end of each sentence close the sentence, where the exclamation point and question mark only complete the dialogue within the sentence.

And it is "learned"...(where elipses are used to show that the thought continues unwritten)
 
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