Sentence examples for quotation whether from inspiring English sources

A macaronic tendency to drag in an untranslated quotation, whether in French, German, Italian, or Spanish, marked his prose for the rest of his life, and could have been a tacit claim that there was really not very much wrong with his eyes, if he could take in all that print.

Use the double quotation mark to enclose a direct quotation, whether spoke by a person or taken from a written source.

The authors are straightforward on two matters that many students are apparently hardwired at birth to find boggling: whether periods and commas belong inside or outside quotation marks, and whether inverted commas (sometimes called "single quotation marks") are an appropriate way to indicate an "ironic" usage.

Much of the discussion concerns whether mixed quotation is a semantic or pragmatic phenomenon, i.e., whether a theory of quotation should treat mixed quotation as a genuinely semantic phenomenon.

Or whether a quotation is misrepresented?

Whether the quotation of 300 words was an infringement or a fair use within the meaning of 107 is a close question that has produced sharp division in both this Court and the Court of Appeals.

There is controversy whether the quotation of Xenocrates is limited just to what has been quoted in the previous sentence or whether the whole fragment of Heraclides is a quotation of Xenocrates.

A question mark's placement relative to a quotation mark depends on whether just the quotation or the whole sentence is a question.

They can go either before or after a closing quotation mark, depending on whether they apply to the whole sentence or to just the quoted part.

They actually are logical: An exclamation point or question mark could come before or after a closing quotation mark, depending on whether it pertains to the whole quotation (Did you notice how often Betty used the word "freedom"?) or just the quoted matter (Alfred E. Neuman's catchphrase is "What, me worry?").

Quotations are labels with codes to indicate whether the quotation comes from a survivor of service provider.