Look at how the first two statements have an opening quote but not a closing one. I have seen it a lot. At first I thought it was a mistake but it clearly isn’t. It bothers me unreasonably.
if a quote continues across multiple paragraphs it’s correct to only put a closing quotation at the end of the last paragraph, to indicate that the quote is one continuous quote rather than multiple separate ones.
the real error here is saying
… was like: Hold on.
it should be
… was like, ‘Hold on.’
single quotes for a quote inside of a quote (reversed in british english, i.e., quotes are indicated with a single quotation mark, and quotes inside quotes are indicated with double quotation marks)
Can someone explain this quoting syntax to me?
Look at how the first two statements have an opening quote but not a closing one. I have seen it a lot. At first I thought it was a mistake but it clearly isn’t. It bothers me unreasonably.
if a quote continues across multiple paragraphs it’s correct to only put a closing quotation at the end of the last paragraph, to indicate that the quote is one continuous quote rather than multiple separate ones.
the real error here is saying
… was like: Hold on.
it should be
… was like, ‘Hold on.’
single quotes for a quote inside of a quote (reversed in british english, i.e., quotes are indicated with a single quotation mark, and quotes inside quotes are indicated with double quotation marks)
ya grammar
I think that’s correct syntax for multi paragraph quotes, not sure which speficic standard prescribes it.
I would not have formatted it with those paragraph breaks though, it reads “off” to me, even though I see what they were trying to do.