Re: Use of commas in quotation marks

Daniel70 <[email protected]> posted:
> On 28/07/2026 9:35 pm, The True Melissa wrote:
> > Verily, in article <[email protected]>, did daniel47
> > @nomail.afraid.org deliver unto us this message:
> >> On 27/07/2026 9:36 pm, The True Melissa wrote:
> 
>>> [quoted text muted]
> >>>> "........".' bit.
> >>>
> >>> No, one period will do. Cujo was correct. If there's more sentence after
> >>> the speech, you'll need another period, but in that case you wouldn't
> >>> have one inside the quotation.
> >>
> >> Correct. You might have a comma or whatever but, in what we're presented
> >> with above, that was the end of what She said so end of conversation
> >> .... but if it was ......
> >>
> >> 'She said, "I'm going to the store.", so she went out the front door.'
> >> the situation is different.
> >>
> >> In fact, reading what I've put there, I'd probably prefer to get rid of
> >> the first comma, i.e. ....
> >>
> >> 'She said "I'm going to the store.", so she went out the front door.'
> 
> > Sorry, Daniel, but that's not right. A period marks the end of an entire
> > sentence. What you have there is one sentence and a fragment of another.
> > 
> > She said, "I'm going to the store," so she went out the front door.
> > 
> > That's a sentence correctly punctuated. British usage would substitute
> > single quotation marks for the doubles I've used, but it's otherwise the
> > same on this issue. If the entire sentence were itself dialogue, it
> > would become this:
> > 
> > Dan said, "She said, 'I'm going to the store,' so she went out the front
> > door."
> 
> I'm going to the store.
> 
> I typed "I'm going to the store.".
> 
> I *DID NOT TYPE* "I'm going to the store".

It should be "I'm going to the store." 

> > Here's a guide with examples:
> > 
> > https://www.stylemanual.gov.au/grammar-punctuation-and-
> > conventions/punctuation/quotation-marks
> > 
> What would they know?? ;-P

An Australian website would probably follow British usage, rather than American, which has slightly different rules.

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