APOSTROPHE AND QUOTATION._English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Accompanied by a compendium, embracing a new systematic order of parsing, a new system of punctuation, exercises in false syntax, and a system of philosophical grammar, in notes, to which are added an appendix and a key to the exercises : designed for the use of schools and private learners

The Apostrophe is used to abbreviate a word, and also to mark the

possessive case of a noun; as, "_'tis_, for _it is_; _tho,'_ for

_though_; _o'er_, for _over_;" "A _man's_ poverty."

A Quotation marks a sentence taken in the author's own language; as,

"The proper study of mankind is man."

When an author represents a person as speaking, the language of that

person should be designated by a quotation; as, At my coming in, he

said, "You and the physician are come too late." A quotation contained

within another, should be distinguished by two _single_ commas; as,

"Always remember this ancient maxim 'Know thyself.'"

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