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Edit Post #37733 Initial revision almost 5 years ago
Edit Post #36546 Initial revision almost 5 years ago
Question Is it acceptable to punctuate and capitalize a dialogue tag like a separate sentence?
When a piece of writing has a quoted sentence followed by a dialogue tag, the sentence is usually ended with a comma (inside the quotation marks) and the dialogue tag is in sentence case, like this: > "Look," said Hermione. > > "I never pegged you for a fan of the obvious, Sam," she said. The abov...
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about 5 years ago
Answer A: Why am I getting a strange double quote (“) in Open Office instead of the ordinary one (")?
I'd argue that quotation marks like `“ ”` are the ordinary ones, and quotation marks like `" "` are the strange ones. :) But if you prefer typewriter-style quotation marks, that's fine. According to the OpenOffice wiki, you can change this behavior by opening the AutoCorrect options, clicking the “L...
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over 5 years ago