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Dubious ...
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Originally Posted by BillyMac
I also wonder why participate is in quotes? Why isn't it just participate, with no quotes?
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I went to some grammar web sites and came up with these:
1) It is meant to denote a strange or unusual use of the word.
My favorite:
2) When you want to imply that the quoted word is dubious.
Quotation marks - Grammarist
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Last edited by BillyMac; Thu Aug 17, 2017 at 03:15pm.
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