<p style=”font-weight: 400;”>The following is cited from The Rules of Unified English Braille, Second Edition 2013.</p>
<p style=”font-weight: 400;”>10.5        Lower Wordsigns</p>
<p style=”font-weight: 400;”>10.5.1    Use the lower wordsign for “be”, “were”, “his” or “was” when the word it represents is “standing alone”.</p>
<p style=”font-weight: 400;”>2.6          Standing Alone</p>
<p style=”font-weight: 400;”>2.6.2      A letter or letters-sequence is considered to be “standing alone” when the following common punctuation and indicator symbols intervene between the letter or letters-sequence and the preceding space, hyphen or dash:</p>

<li style=”font-weight: 400;”>… opening quotation mark of any kind
<li style=”font-weight: 400;”>… opening typeform indicator of any kind …

<p style=”font-weight: 400;”>The example you provided is:</p>
<p style=”font-weight: 400;”>“<u>Was</u> that <u>his</u> car?”</p>
<p style=”font-weight: 400;”>“<u>Was</u>
Meets criteria of standing alone as the opening quotation mark and opening typeform indicator intervenes between the letter or letters-sequence (Was) and the <u>preceding</u> space.</p>
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Cindy Olmstead
UEB Literary Committee