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Janette Parr Consulting's avatar

Don’t worry about criticism of your punctuation. You were obviously β€˜doing it like a Brit’.

We teach British English learners almost the opposite of what you said – i.e.

β€˜Single quotation marks are used to enclose direct quotations and titles of works like books, plays, movies, songs, lectures, and TV shows. They can also indicate irony or introduce a new term or nickname. Double quotation marks are used for quotes within quotes.

β€˜When a comma or full stop is needed after a quotation, the final full stop or comma goes outside the quotation marks’.

I say β€˜almost’ the opposite because the print publishing world tends to use a hybrid, anyway.

Long story….

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CansaFis Foote's avatar

…best wishes and recovery to your friend…

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