You guys are geniuses. Help me to present the following sentence free of grammatical errors:
I thought, “What’s a good way to piss off people that will not make me the real target of their displeasure nor arouse suspicion of intentionality?”
TIA.
There nothing wrong the the grammar (though the writing is awkward and wordy – “around suspicion of intentionality”?)
Better:
I thought, “What a good way to piss of people so that I don’t get blamed?”
IMO, its main crime is awkwardness, not grammatical errors per se. “Real” is redundant and “suspicion of intentionality” is both verbose and unclear.
I would recast as follows:
I thought, “How can I piss people off without arousing suspicion or becoming a target of their displeasure?”
Damn, RealityChuck beat me to it!
I thought, “what is a good way to piss people off which will niether make me the real target of their displeasure nor arouse suspicion of intent?”
but it is a bit verbose, maybe something more like:
I thought, “what would be an anonymous way to piss off people?” – would be fine too.
my way would be to have an attorney send them a letter.
I thought the grammer (and puncuation–doesn’t the thread title indicate this is about use of quotation marks?) was correct.
How about this one:
Who shouted, “Look out!” or is it:
Who shouted, “Look out!”? or is it:
Who shouted, “Look out?”
The second.