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Re: Good Grief, Good Grammar
From:
DD Farms <[log in to unmask]>
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Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Sat, 24 Oct 2009 20:26:28 -0500
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At 09:25 AM 10/24/2009, Brad Johnston wrote: . . .
>page 133: "Rules about quotation marks used in conjunction with 
>commas and periods often bring resistance because they are 
>illogical. Never mind, just learn them. Place commas and periods 
>inside closing quotation marks . . .
>Nonsense. It is easy, logical, and meaningful to put quotation marks 
>where they belong, at both ends of a quotation. Why would anyone 
>struggle to teach it otherwise?

DD: Because you write to the style book's conventions, or you don't 
get published? 

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