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Discussion Groups / English Usage / February 2010Quotation marks on long paragraphs
When I encounter in a novel, for instance, a character explaining something in a paragraph. I see opening quotes but I often can't find closing quotes. Is it me or are the closing quotes missing? In message <d7542b4b-0aa9-482d-8722-eae4d7e3b595@z19g2000yqk.googlegroups.com>, Jerry Freedman <jerry.freedman.jr@gmail.com> writes >When I encounter in a novel, for instance, a character explaining >something in a paragraph. I see opening quotes but I often can't find >closing quotes. Is it me or are the closing quotes missing? If it's one quotation, split in multiple paragraphs, it's usual for each paragraph to have opening quotation marks, but none at the end. Only the last paragraph has the end quotation marks.  SignatureIan > In message > <d7542b4b-0aa9-482d-8722-eae4d7e3b595@z19g2000yqk.googlegroups.com>, [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > each paragraph to have opening quotation marks, but none at the end. > Only the last paragraph has the end quotation marks. Anyone read Ayn Rand recently? How did she do it in John Galt's speech that went on for several chapters? Signatureathel > Anyone read Ayn Rand recently? Probably. How frightening. Signature... A lamprophyre containing small phenocrysts of olivine and augite, and usually also biotite or an amphibole, in a glassy groundmass containing analcime. >> Anyone read Ayn Rand recently? > > Probably. How frightening. Well, you can read her without taking her world view seriously. But, no doubt you're right. The sort of people who think that the President of the USA is a socialist probably read her books with enthusiasm. Signatureathel On 14 Feb, 15:39, Athel Cornish-Bowden <acorn...@ibsm.cnrs-mrs.fr> wrote: > Anyone read Ayn Rand recently? How did she do it in John Galt's speech > that went on for several chapters? That may be long; but I'll bet that the longest example is Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. Apart from the brief scenes on the Nelly, every paragraph has a quotation mark at its start. |
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