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Old 05-Aug-2004, 19:58
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should I use quotation mark " or apostrophes ' in the following sentence:

These ions connect to each other forming a two-dimensional "sheet".

(they just look like a sheet)

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I'd use a single inverted comma- 'sheet',but I can't see why you can't use "sheet".
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I'd use a single inverted comma- 'sheet',but I can't see why you can't use "sheet".
Punctuation is very important. :wink:
http://www.saddleback.edu/library/la...ish/punct.html
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