The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #106990 Message #2215806
Posted By: Emma B
15-Dec-07 - 05:58 AM
Thread Name: BS: Graduate students who can't write
Subject: RE: BS: Graduate students who can't write
Language and grammar both 'evolve'
Current practice in UK English is to use single quoatation marks.
'The news is bad,' he said.
Although 'The news is bad' forms a complete sentance in itself, it is not ended with a full stop because it is here part of the larger sentence ending with 'said'.
- an example of modern English usuage from The Cassell 'Guide to Common Errors in English'