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Thu 5 Feb, 2004 10:36 pm
Hi, are these sentences done right: (Punctuation)
1. "Did you hear her sing, Rock of Ages?" Mark asked.
OR
"Did you hear her sing, 'Rock of Ages'?" Mark asked.
2. "If I had enough money," John said, "I would go to Japan."
3. You should read E.B. White's "Walden": it is,I think, his best essay.
4. James disrespectfully called his father an "oddball" , that's the kind of influence unsaved friends had on him.
Wasn't "Walden" by Thoreau?
Hi Raelynn,
1. second version (song title in single quotes)
2. correct
3. semicolon, not colon; you're separating two phrases, not leading in to a list or series.
4. I'd use a semi here too, after "oddball."
In America (as opposed to in England) "short" punctuation (,.) goes inside the quote marks, as does punctuation belonging only to the quote (as the ? in your example 1.). "Tall" punctuation (;:!?) goes outside...
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Thanks for your help.
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