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gmw · 03-14-2019, 07:01 AM

Just for fun, Harry, I believe this is correct:

Did she say "Is it raining?"

(According to New Hart's Rules: "When the quoted sentence ends with a question mark or exclamation mark, this should be placed within the closing quotation mark, with no other mark outside the quotation mark—only one mark of terminal punctuation is needed")

03-14-2019, 07:01 AM	#11
gmw cacoethes scribendi Posts: 5,818 Karma: 137770742 Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Australia Device: Kobo Aura One & H2Ov2, Sony PRS-650	Just for fun, Harry, I believe this is correct: Did she say "Is it raining?" (According to New Hart's Rules: "When the quoted sentence ends with a question mark or exclamation mark, this should be placed within the closing quotation mark, with no other mark outside the quotation mark—only one mark of terminal punctuation is needed") Last edited by gmw; 03-14-2019 at 07:04 AM.