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Suggestion: Markup for an incorrect example
The standard practice in linguistics is to distinguish a text being discussed from the actual discussion by putting it in italics:
To be or not to be is a conjunction of infinitives acting as an NP.
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Guide to formatting ELL answers -- best practices?
In general, don't overuse formatting. If you can make do with a paragraph containing one italicized word and a "short" quote, don't turn it into a bulleted list with bold and italics and superscript ...
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How do I input symbols from the International Phonetic Alphabet?
Some IPA symbols have HTML entity codes with more or less logical names/abbrevations, so you can type them in plain ASCII:
æ becomes æ
ð becomes ð
ñ becomes ñ
But most ...
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Mark-down tables fail to display on the English Language Learners Stack Exchange
As you can see at Meta Stack Exchange there have been quite a few reported bugs with table preview, Known issues: if the table contains any tab characters it will render incorrectly. There must be a ...
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Mark-down tables fail to display on the English Language Learners Stack Exchange
A header
Another header
First
row
Second
row
^That's a table at the top of the edit window^
This is a table with no blank line of text before it:
| A header | Another header |
| -------- | ---------...
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Suggestion: Markup for an incorrect example
I sometimes use images, such as
Correct example here:
incorrect example here.
This practice is very common in the Wikipedia manual of style (MOS) pages. Remember that any markup should produce a ...
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