<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # Contextual prose and standalone quotations often... > Contextual prose and standalone quotations often require different wording at their boundaries. Continuous prose needs pronouns, conjunctions, lowercase openings, and phrases that point backward; an autonomous quotation needs its subject restored and its boundary completed. The authored dual-surface form stores a document-only opening, a quotation-only opening, shared text, and, when needed, a quotation-only ending. One source span can therefore read naturally in the paragraph and still extract as a complete proposition. **Source:** [[projects/The Argument in Miniature - How I Write Quotations, Paragraphs, and Reusable Prose|The Argument in Miniature: How I Write Quotations, Paragraphs, and Reusable Prose]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “Contextual prose and standalone quotations often require different wording at their boundaries. Continuous prose needs pronouns, conjunctions, lowercase openings, and phrases that point backward; an autonomous quotation needs its subject restored and its boundary completed. The authored dual-surface form stores a document-only opening, a quotation-only opening, shared text, and, when needed, a quotation-only ending. One source span can therefore read naturally in the paragraph and still extract as a complete proposition.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/passages/passages-contextual-prose-standalone-extract-complete-proposition ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->