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Quotes

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"Double (") quotation marks should be used, except for quotations within quotations. For example, "Henry told Jeremy he often heard Frank saying, 'The K is not silent' about his surname.""

Line 1:118 · Commas and periods go outside quotation marks (in nearly all circumstances).

"American: The vessel has been termed the "innominate.""

Line 5:49 · Commas and periods go outside quotation marks (in nearly all circumstances).

List Punctuation

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"British: The vessel has been termed the "innominate"."

Line 4:48 · Do not put full stops at the end of a list item.

List Caps

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"British: The vessel has been termed the "innominate"."

Line 4:8 · In general, we don't start a list item with a capital letter. Exceptions are proper nouns.

"American: The vessel has been termed the "innominate.""

Line 5:8 · In general, we don't start a list item with a capital letter. Exceptions are proper nouns.

Colons

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"British: The vessel has been termed the "innominate"."

Line 4:15 · The first word after a colon should almost always be lowercase. In this case, it's not: ': The vessel'.

"American: The vessel has been termed the "innominate.""

Line 5:16 · The first word after a colon should almost always be lowercase. In this case, it's not: ': The vessel'.

Lint: quotation-marks