Re: Use of commas in quotation marks
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In article <[email protected]>, Will Dockery <[email protected]> wrote: > >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. > AUs does not know how to spell Labour properly. >-- >Poetry and songs of Will Dockery: >https://www.reverbnation.com/willdockery -- Member - Liberal International This is [email protected] Ici [email protected] Yahweh, King & country!Never Satan President Republic!Beware AntiChrist rising! Look at Psalms 14 and 53 on Atheism ; 31 years in the ISP business!