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Which of these is correct? I showed him the woman. “Blood loss is a problem. She needs the wound cauterized.” His eyes widened, “I can’t do that! Her face—” “—is half scraped off. ...
#3: Attribution notice added
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System
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2019-12-08T07:14:48Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision
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Domenic
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2019-12-08T07:14:48Z (almost 5 years ago)
Which of these is correct? > I showed him the woman. “Blood loss is a problem. She needs the wound cauterized.” > > His eyes widened, “I can’t do that! Her face—” > > “—is half scraped off. She’s not going to care about a burn.” vs. > I showed him the woman. “Blood loss is a problem. She needs the wound cauterized.” > > His eyes widened, “I can’t do that! Her face—” > > “—Is half scraped off. She’s not going to care about a burn.” Pro-lowercase: it's continuing the same sentence; if it was the same speaker, I'd definitely lowercase. Pro-uppercase: it's a new speaker, and it feels like new speakers should get capitalization?
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2017-10-29T22:53:14Z (about 7 years ago)
Original score: 4