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Here are excerpts from the most recent tips on SlawTips, the site that each week offers up useful advice, short and to the point, on research, writing, and practice.
Research & Writing
You Can Quote Me
Neil Guthrie
First off, the verb is quote and the noun really should be quotation – but I would be fighting a pointless rearguard action in trying to stop people from talking about a quote. Single and double quotation marks: In the UK, single quotation marks (usually called ‘inverted commas’) are the default, with anything quoted within a quotation going in double quotation marks, like so: She said, ‘The bus driver told me, “You can’t bring such a large animal onto the bus, madam”, but in the end he let me.’ …
The margins of block quotations should be narrower rather than wider than those of the main text. Thanks to Rob Kligman for pointing out my error!
No! I was right initially: the margins are wider around the quotation, the block of text is narrower. Could have been clearer about that, though.