Timeline for Capitalization in quotations
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| May 24, 2020 at 18:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/1264617167942811648 | ||
| May 24, 2020 at 12:44 | comment | added | Mazura |
Should this word be in quotes or in italic? ... a2b7x. 'quoted' vocabulary is not a "quote"
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| May 24, 2020 at 10:41 | history | became hot network question | |||
| May 24, 2020 at 6:53 | vote | accept | kakakali | ||
| May 24, 2020 at 5:50 | answer | added | Jason Bassford | timeline score: 5 | |
| May 24, 2020 at 4:54 | comment | added | kakakali | @JasonBassford Yes. I want to know if there're cases lowercase sentence start is allowed. (Different examples may have different answers, and the problem may be subjective.) | |
| May 24, 2020 at 4:30 | comment | added | Jason Bassford | I'm having difficulty understanding what your specific question is. You seem to be asking at least three different things: how (or if) to start a sentence with a lowercase letter, the difference between use and reference (words as words), and, in at least one point, if you can (or should) use an uppercase letter in a quotation that occurs in the middle of a sentence. Is the primary focus here how to start a sentence if it would look strange to capitalize the first letter? | |
| May 24, 2020 at 4:26 | comment | added | kakakali | @JasonBassford Thanks for your comment! As the style guide says "can be" ... Could you please give me a link for that guide? Some cases may still benefit from a more general expression. Let's say a novel with the following conversations: "The code!?" "a2b7x." (Yeah, the author may also use a new code:)) | |
| May 24, 2020 at 4:24 | comment | added | RegDwigнt | While this may come as a surprise to very many, English does sometimes use common sense. | |
| May 24, 2020 at 4:18 | history | edited | kakakali | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 24, 2020 at 4:12 | history | edited | kakakali | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 24, 2020 at 2:57 | comment | added | kakakali | @JasonBassford Alright. I've modified it. | |
| May 24, 2020 at 2:55 | history | edited | kakakali | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 24, 2020 at 2:51 | comment | added | Jason Bassford | You haven't clearly indicated which of your example phrases are complete sentences or not. If they are simply sentence fragments, then what would warrant capitalizing red in the middle of a sentence? | |
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| May 24, 2020 at 2:35 | history | asked | kakakali | CC BY-SA 4.0 |