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To: Blueflag
Shouldn’t this be “ a rite of Fall”?

Or should the quotation marks be outside the punctuation?

:^)

At my house it's a "rite of fall," because the last time I used the crock pot, I slipped and fell in the kitchen. On my 3-month-old replacement hip....

34 posted on 10/20/2010 1:46:35 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (We conservatives will always lose elections as long as we allow the MSM to choose our candidates.)
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To: Cyber Liberty

ahem ... it’s actually OK to place the question mark outside a verbatim quote to explicitly note that the question mark is part of the author’s text, and not part of the quotation.

For instance.

I think Obama is despicable for thrice omitting “endowed by our Creator”!

At least I was taught that YEARS ago ...


49 posted on 10/20/2010 1:55:05 PM PDT by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur)
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