Re: Which Makes Most Sense?

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From: Flying Tortoise
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 20:42

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Prisoner at War wrote:

> Hi, All:
>
> Is it written "95 in 100 samples" or "95 in a 100 samples"?  Does "100"
> mean "one hundred" or "a hundred"?  If you were to read the statement
> "95 in 100 samples" out loud, what do you say for "100"?
>
> And what's the deal with stuff like putting question marks inside
> quotation marks?  I understand that typographically it looks better to
> tuck everything within quotes, though logically it might lead to the
> implication that the question mark is a part of the quote (say, in the
> case of the title of an article).  I've seen it done both ways,
> actually, on the NYT website....
>
>
> TIA!

95 in 100 .... or .... ninety-five in a hundred, never mix 'em!

Question marks should be placed inside the quotation marks only if the
material in quotes is a question. If the quote forms part of a question
but is not the question, then the punctuation goes outside as logic
dictates. Punctuation is supposed to help you read what the author
intends, after all!

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