Re: Use of commas in quotation marks

[email protected] (The Doctor) posted:
> Will Dockery  <[email protected]> wrote:
>> [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:
> 
> >> >>>> [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 aware that spelling, grammar and punctuation rules may vary in other countries, but if Miguel is posting using different rules than American English grammar, then he should be able to specify what rules apply from his location of posting, and lets have a look at that.

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