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Reply Mon 18 Nov, 2019 12:51 am
I am wanted to get my mom a piece of wall art the says “God willing” for Christmas. She would be the one that I would ask about punctuation so I am a bit nervous about placing my order. Can anyone help me please? Ive been looking online and I see

God willing...

God willing?

”God willing”

“God willing?”

God Willing.




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roger
 
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Reply Mon 18 Nov, 2019 01:19 am
@Lsalinas1,
“God willing?”
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livinglava
 
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Reply Mon 18 Nov, 2019 05:54 pm
@Lsalinas1,
Lsalinas1 wrote:

I am wanted to get my mom a piece of wall art the says “God willing” for Christmas. She would be the one that I would ask about punctuation so I am a bit nervous about placing my order. Can anyone help me please? Ive been looking online and I see

God willing...

God willing?

”God willing”

“God willing?”

God Willing.

"God willing" usually follows something else that you hope and/or plan for, such as "tomorrow it will be sunny, God willing."

So you should probably punctuate it, " . . . God willing."
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Mon 18 Nov, 2019 05:57 pm
It does not really need punctuation unless you have further meaning in mind.
livinglava
 
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Reply Mon 18 Nov, 2019 06:03 pm
@edgarblythe,
edgarblythe wrote:

It does not really need punctuation unless you have further meaning in mind.

It could be more meaningful to quote the entire line from the Lord's Prayer, "Thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven."

. . . but leaving it without punctuation could open it up to contemplation more.
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Methen
 
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Reply Tue 19 Nov, 2019 08:10 am
@Lsalinas1,
Here is something you can print up for your mom for it is nothing but pure and simple truth!

http://soundofheart.org/galacticfreepress/content/god-gets-his-hands-bible
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tsarstepan
 
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Reply Tue 19 Nov, 2019 08:40 am
@Lsalinas1,
I'd use God willing? if your mother had a sense of humor. It seems that if uttered out loud that it would come with a very comical overemphasized ironic shrug.

Use the quotation marks ... only if you think it looks better than without. It's a piece of wall art. There isn't a strict rule depicting the grammatical necessity of the quote marks.

I'd use God willing....
(there are supposed to be 4 periods in an ellipsis to a phrase that stops dead and no longer continues)

If you're going to use the quote marks, you probably should add a period before the closing quote mark.
”God willing.”
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InfraBlue
 
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Reply Tue 19 Nov, 2019 01:51 pm
I bet your mom would tell you that, since it's a phrase leave out any punctuation.
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