Study English Grammar » quotation marks http://www.studyenglishgrammar.com Free English Grammar Tips & Blog Sun, 24 Apr 2011 16:34:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 How to Use the Quotation Marks Perfectly http://www.studyenglishgrammar.com/grammar/how-to-use-the-quotation-marks-perfectly.htm http://www.studyenglishgrammar.com/grammar/how-to-use-the-quotation-marks-perfectly.htm#comments Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:12:53 +0000 Study English Grammar http://www.studyenglishgrammar.com/?p=225 If you want to write English you must have to learn the perfect use of the quotation marks. The sign goes thus—”———”. These marks are always used to enclose a saying of someone or something that is borrowed from somewhere else.

Generally quotation marks can be used when we quote someone word by word. We use the marks so that the words uttered by the man are kept intact. There is no change in the saying. There is no way to extort the saying of the speaker.

We can use the direct quotation marks when a sentence is already going on. Or the marks may be used from the very beginning when the speaker is saying something.

  • While discussing on the Romantic poets our teacher suddenly expressed,” Above all the Romantic period is the best period in the history of English Literature, I think.”
  • Our English teacher all on a sudden declared,” Romantic period is the best period in the history of English literature, I think.”

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]]> http://www.studyenglishgrammar.com/grammar/how-to-use-the-quotation-marks-perfectly.htm/feed 0 How to Use Proofreaders Marks http://www.studyenglishgrammar.com/english-tips/how-to-use-proofreaders-marks.htm http://www.studyenglishgrammar.com/english-tips/how-to-use-proofreaders-marks.htm#comments Fri, 19 Feb 2010 01:09:28 +0000 Study English Grammar http://www.studyenglishgrammar.com/?p=221 Suppose you have been burdened with the work of marking up a document. What would you do then? I think you have no other way than to use the proofreader’s specific marks. Nowadays the use of proofreading on the hard copy is a rare mater, still if you have to do it for your own sake or to edit some writing of someone you have to be too cautious to use the marks in a very standard fashion.

It seems that if someone reads and you proofread it is beer for you. You may locate the mistakes when someone reads it aloud. Your eyes may miss the mistakes but your ears can never prove wrong. Generally the proofreader’s marks are used in publishing houses and the world of business.

When you proofread you must take care of some things that are available at hand:

*a pencil or a red pen

*the matter that you have to proofread

*the list where the marks are inscribed

Actually a pen with red ink or a pencil is necessary to highlight the wrongs on the white sheet of paper. In his way you can highlight the wrongs to the writer or the man who i... Read more...

]]> http://www.studyenglishgrammar.com/english-tips/how-to-use-proofreaders-marks.htm/feed 0 How to Use Quotation and Correct Punctuation http://www.studyenglishgrammar.com/grammar/how-to-use-quotation-and-correct-punctuation.htm http://www.studyenglishgrammar.com/grammar/how-to-use-quotation-and-correct-punctuation.htm#comments Thu, 18 Feb 2010 01:12:29 +0000 Study English Grammar http://www.studyenglishgrammar.com/?p=223 You must take into account that use of quotation mark is obviously vital in English language. In English grammar, it is one of the vital punctuation marks that are used to highlight whether the words can lead without being interrupted or with some interruption. You have to keep it in mind that if you bring an interruption while using quotation you have to place either a comma or nothing but a colon to specify the interruption.

My teacher says: “Try to be great.”

In this group of words you find the quotation at the very interrupting point. Hence it is up to you to use the colon. Remember in this particular case the use of colon is nothing but the end mark of the punctuation.

If such a case comes that you have to use the quotation marks as the quotation transition shows no interruption. In this particular case always avoid the quotation marks. When the interrupted quotation transition follows and you have to use the firs letter of the quoted text in the capital letter you have the sole right to make the firs letter a smaller one.

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]]> http://www.studyenglishgrammar.com/grammar/how-to-use-quotation-and-correct-punctuation.htm/feed 0 Six common mistakes in English writing http://www.studyenglishgrammar.com/english-tips/six-common-mistakes-in-english-writing.htm http://www.studyenglishgrammar.com/english-tips/six-common-mistakes-in-english-writing.htm#comments Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:15:37 +0000 Study English Grammar http://www.studyenglishgrammar.com/?p=128 Better English writing is becoming difficult nowadays and this is mainly because of the dropping of the English writing standards among the people. Nowadays, abbreviations are being used in messages and this has spilled over to the other areas of communication making the standard of English writing more and more worse. Better English writing is in danger and every day we are able to spot blatant mistakes being made in radio, television, pamphlets, newspapers, e-mail, websites and other areas as well. Mistakes in written English are carried over to the spoken English and the same is happening vice versa. Therefore, it is better to see that the following six common mistakes, which are generally committed by people in written English, are avoided.

  1. Capitals letters: For emphasizing words, people are using capital letters in the middle of the sentences. Instead of using capital letters in the middle, it is better to use bold letters or color differentiation or larger fonts for emphasizing purpose.
  2. Commas: As we all know, comma is a kind of p... Read more...

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