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Old 05-06-2011, 05:24 AM   #17
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Originally Posted by Hellmark View Post
What I found to be most strange was the use of quotation marks. For example, this was how the original had a letter quoted:
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It is common in American English for a continuous quote, like you displayed here to only have opening quote marks until the very end of the quoted material when a closing quote mark is used. What you displayed is correct usage.
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