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| subject: | Re: 1 in 20 adults in USA illiterate |
From: Tony Williams Don Hills wrote: > In article , Tony Williams wrote: > >>I had an English teacher who made the whole class chant "'I', 'T', >>apostrophe, 'S' always means 'it is'", for about five minutes. >> >>A five minute lesson and the rule was learned for life, but I'm not at >>all sure how to handle the quoting in the preceding sentence. > > > Accepted UK usage is as you have done it - single quotes where quoting > is required inside double quotes. Thanks. It was a lucky guess based on how to constuct the sentence without needing to escape any quotes with a backslash. -- Tony --- BBBS/NT v4.01 Flag-5* Origin: Barktopia BBS Site http://HarborWebs.com:8081 (1:379/45) SEEN-BY: 633/267 270 5030/786 @PATH: 379/45 1 633/267 |
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