Re: Which Makes Most Sense?

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From: Peacenik
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"Prisoner at War" <prisoner_at_war@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Hi, All:
>
> Is it written "95 in 100 samples" or "95 in a 100 samples"?

"95 in 100 samples"

> Does "100"
> mean "one hundred" or "a hundred"?

Either one.

> If you were to read the statement
> "95 in 100 samples" out loud, what do you say for "100"?

"a hundred" informally; "one hunderd" formally.

> And what's the deal with stuff like putting question marks inside
> quotation marks?

The question mark goes inside the quotation mark if the quoted material is a
question:

He asked me, "What's your name?"
Did he say "Now is the time"?

In the US, it's the convention that periods and commas always go inside
quotation marks, colons and semicolons always go outside, and question marks
and excalamation marks go where it is most logical to place them.

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