Re: Use of commas in quotation marks

[email protected] (The Doctor) posted:
> 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.

I'm not very familiar with Australian culture, do they leave out the *u*?

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