-Carlos-
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Some writers write dialog differently than other writers. Therefore I do not know how to properly use them (quotations). Am I using quotations correctly in the following passages?
I feel that they are jammed together and need more space. I do not know.
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I feel that they are jammed together and need more space. I do not know.
I held the peculiar object gently in both hands as if it were made of fine glass. One nervous spasm and it could drop, shattering into a million shards, onto the hard wood floor. In his deep voice my fathered exclaimed, “Happy birthday son! Do you know what it is?” Keeping my eyes fixed on the oddity in my hands, I nodded. “Well, it's called a stethoscope. Can you say stethoscope?” I repeated the sound. “Very good,” my father replied. “Now do you know what it's used for?” I remembered that on my last birthday my father gave me a microscope kit for children above the age of nine; it was my seventh birthday. Knowing that and knowing that my father was a doctor, I knew the gift had something to do with medicine.
I gave him a puzzled look and he bent down on one knee, placed the eartips in my ears before pressing the other end up against his chest. My eyes widen as I heard the beating of his heart. “Is that your heart dad?” I asked in wonder. “Yes it is son. You are listening to my heart.” My father handed me the flat end of the stethoscope, then he turned around and told me to press it up against his upper back. At first I did not hear a thing but then, after my father took a deep breath, I let out a sigh. This time it was his breath bellowing in and out of his lungs. Soon I was using it on myself; trying listen to my own body. My fathered chuckled with delight.
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