Re: Use of commas in quotation marks

[email protected] (The Doctor) posted:

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> In article <[email protected]>,
> Will Dockery  <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >[email protected] (The Doctor) posted:
> >
> >> 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.
> >
> >I never noticed.
>
> Not to worry.

I'm not really an expert on Australian culture.

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