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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
“get bothered by grammatical errors online have “less agreeable” personalities “

There’s no need to put ‘less agreeable’ in quotations.


The quotation marks there are to indicate that "less agreeable" is a quote from the language used in the article to define this type of personality.

The topmost sentence above is punctuated incorrectly, however; when a quotation is within another quotation, the single quote mark is used for the innermost quotation:

"get bothered by grammatical errors online have 'less agreeable' personalities"

99 posted on 04/06/2016 1:58:58 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. --George Orwell)
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To: Albion Wilde
Oh no! I caught a grammar Nazi!


124 posted on 04/06/2016 2:15:37 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Can we please kill the guy already who invented the saying "My bad"?)
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