Punctuation for a story read aloud within a story
I have written a fairy tale in which another person reads a story aloud within the tale itself. Do I need quotation marks around the entire story within the story? If I need to at all, how do I punctuate it?
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I have written a fairy tale in which another person reads a story aloud within the tale itself. Do I need quotation marks around the entire story within the story? If I need to at all, how do I punctuate it?
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Indent the whole story. "Block quote".
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I have written a fairy tale in which another person reads a story aloud within the tale itself. Do I need quotation marks around the entire story within the story? If I need to at all, how do I punctuate it?
punctuation
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I have written a fairy tale in which another person reads a story aloud within the tale itself. Do I need quotation marks around the entire story within the story? If I need to at all, how do I punctuate it?
punctuation
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Indent the whole story. "Block quote".
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Indent the whole story. "Block quote".
– Hot Licks
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Indent the whole story. "Block quote".
– Hot Licks
1 min ago
Indent the whole story. "Block quote".
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Indent the whole story. "Block quote".
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