RE: GRAMMAR: quotation marks.

From: E. Shaun Russell (e_shaun@uniserve.com)
Date: Mon Jan 27 1997 - 12:49:23 MST


On 27/01/97, Mark Grant wrote:
 
>I agree, as you can see, for the parsing reasons and because it's just
>alot easier to put the punctuation outside, especially when you use a
>text editor to cut and paste somebody else's words as I did in this
>sentence.

        While we're on the subject of grammar, there is no such word as
'alot'. It is 'a lot'. :-)

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