Thread: Do grammatical errors bother you?
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Old 10-25-2010, 09:57 PM   #219
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Originally Posted by Bilbo1967 View Post
What if the bit in the quotes clearly needs a different puntuation than the sentence as a whole?

e.g.

Did she just scream, "Oh no!"?

Can you have the two bits of punctuation as above?
Depends on the setting. Is someone speaking aloud? Then the "did she just scream" needs to be in quotes also.

Sentence probably can be reworded to look better.
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