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Gina D
Lv 4
Gina D asked in Education & ReferenceQuotations · 1 decade ago

putting an entire paragraph in quotes, and there are quotes in that paragraph?

I'm putting " (quotes) to quote the entire paragraph, but in the pargraph there are quotes...

how do I quote in a QUOTE..??

make sense??

thank you.

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  • 1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    You would use double quotation marks first, then single. If you have multiple quotes within quotes, you alternate between them all. Be sure to close them in the same order.

    So it would look like "Billy told me that Susie said 'go away.'"

  • ?
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    I believe at the start and end of the paragraph you use the double " symbol and for each quotation inside, you use a single '

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