Thank you for that! I was educated in the US but am teaching in Canada. I
thought I had all the differences straight, but I didn't know about that
one.
Melady Preece
(Grading Research Methods papers in rainy Vancouver)
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From: "Beth Benoit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 11:47 AM
Subject: Re: pet peeves from papers
> Other pet peeve corrections:
>
> a lot -> alot
> all right-> alright
>
> BUT "awhile" can be correct unless it's used as part of a noun phrase with
> an object of a preposition. ("We stayed for a while.")
>
> And one that I see so often I'm considering having a stamp made with the
> rule:
>
> In the United States, periods and commas go inside quotation marks
> regardless of logic. But even if the sense of the sentence doesn't seem
> right, the comma and period are still inside. Here's the example from
> Webster's:
>
> In American style, then, you would write: My favorite poem is Robert
Frost's
> "Design." But in England you would write: My favorite poem is Robert
Frost's
> "Design".
>
> And here's a website that explains it:
>
> http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/marks/quotation.htm
>
> Beth Benoit (who needs to stop playing on TIPS and get back to papers)
> University System of New Hampshire
>
>
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