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Kathy Du Bois <[log in to unmask]>
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The Electronic Church <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 19 Feb 2008 07:35:52 -0500
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Phil,
I was taught to use double quotation marks.  For example, if you need 
to place a quote with in a quote, use another quotation mark, and be 
sure to use  another mark at the end of the inside quote.  If both 
quotes end at the same time, use two quotation marks.
Kathy



At 04:55 PM 2/18/2008, you wrote:
>Does anybody know what you do if you are already quoting, that is, if you
>are writing what a person is saying, and in the middle of what your are
>writing what they are saying, they quote someone else?  Do you use the ' as
>the quotations marks without the body of the speaking person or do you use
>some other punctuation?  I don't read Braille very often and when I read
>using my voice synthesizer, you don't often stop to look at such things.
>So, I was just curious if anybody knows the correct format?  I've seen the '
>used for an inner usage of quoting but I've never know if this is correct or
>not or if somebody just made it up.
>
>Phil.

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