How To Use Quotation mark In A Sentence

  • As the quotation marks indicate, transcendence in these terms would not be Christian transcendence, nor would fecundity be synonymous with biological reproduction.
  • Punctuation tattoos are nothing new—interrobang, quotation marks, ampersand, and period have been around for a while now.
  • At first the international press used it ironically, in quotation marks.
  • What is not acceptible is the autotype function of inserting a left quotation mark for an initial apostrophe. The Volokh Conspiracy » Commas and Periods — Inside Closing Quotation Marks or Outside Them?
  • Similarly, bikini was written “Bikini”—with both a capital letter and quotation marks—when it was first used in English to refer to the swimsuit. The English Is Coming!
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  • Only I'd be sure to put it in quotation marks, which would legalize my careful misattribution. THE TARTAN RINGERS
  • Some of the formatting is annoying, specifically the lack of quotation marks in the ‘flashback’ sequences, but it does a good job of meshing lessons in quilting technique with the plot. The Quilter’s Apprentice
  • a quotation mark is sometimes called an inverted comma
  • But even users of low-end databases can benefit from using placeholders because they ensure strings will be quoted correctly, even if they contain quotation marks or apostrophes.
  • (In Beinart's case, I use the term pro-Israel without the quotation marks that I use when I describe organizations like AIPAC, the American Jewish Committee and The Israel Project which are in the "pro-Israel" business and insouciantly support policies that are destructive to Israel) .. MJ Rosenberg: Bombshell: Former New Republic Editor, Peter Beinart, on the Collapse of the "Pro-Israel" Establishment
  • There are no quotation marks to indicate these lines are by another author than Burns.
  • By now, I'm used to unconventional style that forgoes quotation marks in favor of a starting dash. REVIEW: My Dead Body by Charlie Huston
  • There are no quotation marks, only dashes, which is okay, but there also aren’t any dialog attributes, which can get a little confusing and required me to back track a couple of times to figure out who was speaking. A Chill in the Air : Bev Vincent
  • Backslashes are interpreted literally , unless they immediately precede a double quotation mark.
  • In the article, the word naturopath was written with quotation marks. Glenwood Springs Post Independent - Top Stories
  • I heard Maybe It's Because I'm a Londoner and Blaydon Races, neither of them sung within the quotation marks of irony. Royal wedding then, and now
  • If you wonder about my use of quotation marks around the term Jewish terror, I assure you that I do, too. Brad Hirschfield: Religious Terror Is a Problem for All Faiths
  • The author puts ‘to the Hebrews’ in quotation marks because he, like many other scholars currently working on Hebrews, does not believe that this ascription describes the addressees of this text.
  • Any sentence sentences taken directly from a source should appear insight cotection maskinside quotation marks.
  • A concern to keep in mind when evaluating punctuation marks and other modifiers in digital type is unwelcome collisions and unresolved alignment between letters and brackets, braces, parentheses, quotation marks, and ellipses.
  • A Kodak mother here photographing her daughter playing with her dollhouse could be a work by Laurie Simmons; it lacks only the feminist quotation marks. Kodak's Grand Central Moments
  • If he'd just said "bands like Brand New and Fall Out Boy", you wouldn't even think of recommending Rites of Spring, so why do so just because he's used the word "emo", in inverted commas, and followed by the caveat "I've taken a slightly deconstructionalist view and decided that since all signifying words are subjective, and the two words of the thread title doubly so, it was was safer to use quotation marks"? Drowned In Sound // Feed
  • The professors acknowledge that placing terrorist in quotation marks “may be jarring for some readers who consider the designation self-evident.” OBAMA ZOMBIES
  • But now they have become “aurium offensiva” quotation marks in the original; “offensive to the ears”, an expression which the liturgical reformer is obviously adapting from one of the theological notes which had been employed for centuries, “offensive to pious ears”. Archive 2009-06-01
  • I've never liked putting closing punctuation inside quotation marks.
  • The letterpress landscape is littered with Qs: quad (short for quadrat), quoin, quarto, quire, question & quotation marks, even quadrata (Roman inscriptional capitals, of which I am particularly fond). A to Z: Q is for Quatrefoil
  • I would draw a firm line against moving other punctuation, such as colons or semicolons, to before the closing quotation mark except, of course, when it’s part of what’s being quoted, such as “He asked, ‘What did yousay?’” The Volokh Conspiracy » Commas and Periods — Inside Closing Quotation Marks or Outside Them?
  • He may or may not have perorated against alchemy and witchcraft… we kind of zoned out at the quotation mark.
  • Her concern is with anglophone writing, and she carefully distinguishes between West Indian and Caribbean (and then moves gracefully between the two terms, with no quotation marks).
  • It is true that all "Neptunists" (and I used quotation marks on purpose to show that the word was taken in a wider context) did not subscribe to the diluvialist view but it is also true that Guettard was the man primarily responsible for the break-through that clipped the wings of those who did, and of those who did not, like Warner, Saussure, and Jameson, but held that igneous rocks were precipitated out of aqueous media. Vulcanists & Neptunists
  • When a quotation is followed by an attributive phrase, the comma is enclosed within the quotation marks.
  • The first three lines encourage us to read without pausing but the forced pause created by the quotation marks around "genial" allow us to catch our breath before moving on through the next two lines and arriving at the inserted nonrestrictive "in my youth. Kerouac the Writer
  • Attribute value delimiters are set to quotation marks (double quotes).
  • The software that makes the post to your comment section does not seem to like guillemets (that is, = French quotation marks). Brouillon - French Word-A-Day
  • Words in quotation marks are verbatim quotes from the hearing; all others are paraphrase.
  • The software that makes the post to your comment section does not seem to like guillemets that is, = French quotation marks. Brouillon - French Word-A-Day
  • When a quotation is followed by an attributive phrase, the comma is placed within the quotation marks.
  • Could you please be careful with the quotation marks, bold face and italics?
  • It can be any symbol, digit, letter, quotation mark.
  • The quotation marks around the word “suspicion” befogs the meaning of the phrase. My Thoughts on the 2007 New York Food & Wine Classic
  • Only I'd be sure to put it in quotation marks, which would legalize my careful misattribution. THE TARTAN RINGERS
  • Geof put verbal quotation marks around the word confessed and also around sin, but maybe I was the only one who heard them. Confession
  • When written the word Trojan should be "Trojan" when referring to Troy State University, its teams, students, etc., but without the quotation marks when referring to citizens of Troy and students, teams etc. of the Troy City Schools --- Troy's Real Trojans. The Troy Messenger
  • The only thing they have in common are the double rather than single quotation marks around them.
  • To the degree that this device contributes to the broader popular perception that ‘literature’ is pretentious, faddish, vague, eventless, effortful, and suffocatingly interior, quotation marks may not be quite as tiny as they appear on the page. 2008 November 18 « One-Minute Book Reviews
  • There are no quotation marks to indicate these lines are by another author than Burns.
  • For narratology, legitimate signals must have been authorized as such, demonstrably asserted by the text either in explicit statement or through conventional signs like quotation marks.
  • Next, putting quotation marks around the term skeptic is an ad-hom attempt to play the skeptic card. Watts Up With That?
  • Although I have the quotation marks in the right place to allow me to claim strict accuracy, I accept, for what it is worth, that I should have used "emphasise" and not "affirm". John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
  • I hate my stupid Microsoft Word program… it always capitalizes the H in your name… it does that to my words after quotation marks in my story too!
  • I would draw a firm line against moving other punctuation, such as colons or semicolons, to before the closing quotation mark except, of course, when it’s part of what’s being quoted, such as “He asked, ‘What did you say?’” The Volokh Conspiracy » Commas and Periods — Inside Closing Quotation Marks or Outside Them?
  • But even users of low-end databases can benefit from using placeholders because they ensure strings will be quoted correctly, even if they contain quotation marks or apostrophes.
  • Always distinguish the marks from surrounding printed text, for example, by putting the mark in all capital letters or using initial capitals and placing the mark within quotation marks.
  • I think you should edit the text in quotation marks to read "absolute honesty" and not "absolutely honesty". Axelrod: I'm not thinking about Palin's next move
  • The key word in the last sentence is in quotation marks because, as Tolstoy made clear in War and Peace, there are as many truths about a given battle, after it, as there were participants in it.
  • Saint Francis and Saint Anthony, the Seraphic Founder and the Learned Apostle (meo episcopus) of the Franciscan Order, are two great "figures" [not real figures, mind you, but the fake kind that need to go in quotation marks] who have stirred the perpetual engine [the what?] of humble and simple spirituality, a perpetual source for all people who are suffering from an existential aridity. Archive 2008-02-01
  • Callendar asked putting the colloquialism in quotation marks. A BODY SURROUNDED BY WATER
  • Only I'd be sure to put it in quotation marks, which would legalize my careful misattribution. THE TARTAN RINGERS
  • In his writing, he often encased the word "bubble" in disputative quotation marks -- as if to challenge the notion that any market rise could be excessive. The credit bubble, the recession and what the Federal Reserve should have done
  • All you need is a hamster, a cage and a subscription to the newspaper "Israel Hayom" the quotation marks in the case of this publication should actually be around the word "newspaper". Omri Marcus: Five Ways to Read the Paper and Keep Your Sanity Intact
  • All I am saying is that if you start ironizing nationalities or putting them in quotation marks, you will never be able to speak of Taiwan or Taiwanese society with a straight face. Chunghwamintzu Rulz: thanks for making my point

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