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quotation marks

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quotation marks
Noun, pl
the punctuation marks used to begin and end a quotation, either `` and '' or ` and '
Translations

quotation marks nplcomillas fpl
quotation marks quotation nplguillemets mpl
quotation marks quotation nplAnführungszeichen pl
quotation marks nplvirgolette fpl


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You can always tell what is from the original by the quotation marks, if by nothing else.
Then I saw that the quotation marks wouldn't do, so I snipped them off, and to make it seem likelier, snipped the whole quire to match.
Three days, at white heat, completed his narrative; but when he had copied it carefully, in a large scrawl that was easy to read, he learned from a rhetoric he picked up in the library that there were such things as paragraphs and quotation marks.
 
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