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From: "alexander koryagin"
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Hi, Ardith Hinton! How are you?
on Sunday, 05 of January, I read your message to alexander koryagin
about "3xHa!"
AH> [quoting a message from several years ago]
AH>> I can't imagine how anyone could gather all rules from all schools
AH>> without consulting Fowler's MODERN ENGLISH USAGE or the BBC NEWS.
AH> Would I say a thing like that? Yes, I would. :-))
AH> Anne Stilman offers very little information WRT the use of
AH> quotation marks in British English. But I think both she &
AH> Geraldine Woods are probably writing for North Americans who want
AH> short, snappy answers like "foreigners do it backwards" so they can
AH> get on with the next topic. For those who are ready to learn more I
AH> suggest MODERN ENGLISH USAGE or MODERN AMERICAN USAGE.... :-)
I remember, that I said to you that if a punctuation guide is thicker
than 350 papers it will not be read at all. Such books are not for
people. ;-)
BTW: I used a reported speech. Should I shift verbs' time like this
(is->was and will->would):
I remember, that I said to you that if a punctuation guide was
thicker than 350 papers it would not be read at all.
IMHO, I should not. I mean a general truth, not the thickness of a
book in the past.
AH> author wants to quote a response which includes more than one
AH> paragraph it's treated in the same way as well. The quotation
AH> begins with a quotation mark. All subsequent paragraphs included
AH> within the same quotation begin with quotation marks. The last
AH> paragraph ends with a quotation mark so we know it's someone else's
AH> turn.
It look like this (the end of "Heart of darkness", by Conrad):
-----Beginning of the citation-----
...
"'Repeat them,' she said in a heart-broken tone. 'I want -- I
want -- something -- something -- to -- to live with.'
"I was on the point of crying at her, 'Don't you hear them?' The dusk
was repeating them in a persistent whisper all around us, in a whisper
that seemed to swell menacingly like the first whisper of a rising wind.
'The horror! The horror!'
"'His last word -- to live with,' she murmured. 'Don't you understand
I loved him -- I loved him -- I loved him!'
"I pulled myself together and spoke slowly.
"'The last word he pronounced was -- your name.'
"I heard a light sigh, and then my heart stood still, stopped dead
short by an exulting and terrible cry, by the cry of inconceivable
triumph and of unspeakable pain. 'I knew it -- I was sure!'... She knew.
She was sure. I heard her weeping; she had hidden her face in her hands.
It seemed to me that the house would collapse before I could escape,
that the heavens would fall upon my head. But nothing happened. The
heavens do not fall for such a trifle. Would they have fallen, I wonder,
if I had rendered Kurtz that justice which was his due? Hadn't he said
he wanted only justice? But I couldn't. I could not tell her. It would
have been too dark -- too dark altogether...."
Marlow ceased, and sat apart, indistinct and silent, in the pose of a
meditating Buddha. Nobody moved for a time. "We have lost the first of
the ebb," said the Director, suddenly. I raised my head. The offing was
barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil waterway leading to
the uttermost ends of the earth flowed somber under an overcast sky --
seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness.
-----The end of the citation-----
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Bye Ardith!
Alexander (yAlexKo[]yandex.ru) + 2:5020/2140.91
fido7.english-tutor 2013
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