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Yeah, Phil, I believe it is the apostrophe. You use quotation marks for the
person who's speaking, and the apostrophe when they're quoting someone else.
Peggy
http://kernsac.livejournal.com/
----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 1:55 PM
Subject: Writing Question
> 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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