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Originally Posted by MerlinMama
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Any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated. I know I'm probably just missing something obvious, but...  |
Maybe the author followed the convention, in English, of not closing the quote marks at the end of paragraphs if the quote/speech is continued in the next paragraph - many (most ?) widely used style guides (for English) recommend this convention, and many publishers will mandate it.
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Originally Posted by Chicago Manual of Style
"If a passage consisting of more than one paragraph from the same source is quoted and is not set off as an excerpt, quotation marks are used at the beginning of each paragraph and at the end of the last paragraph."
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punctuation - Why does the multi-paragraph quotation rule exist?
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