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Old 11-27-2008, 08:27 AM   #5
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Originally Posted by pdurrant View Post
When fixing unbalanced quotes, don't fix quotes that should be unbalanced.

When using quote marks around speech, if the speech is more than one paragraph, closing quotes are not used at the end of each paragraph, but only at the end of the last paragraph:
That seems to be a style that's not "in fashion" at the moment. Dickens uses it for page after page, in scenes where a character is telling a story, but you don't tend to come across it that much in modern books.
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