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from: Tony Williams
date: 2005-12-19 10:20:16
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

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