Brian wrote in
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Mark Tranchant wrote: Brian wrote:
Mark Tranchant wrote:
And to think I have a page on apostrophe usage...
I meant "follow-up is set", honest.
As long as we're being picky with our punctuation, how about
"follow-up is set," with the comma inside the quotation mark where
it belongs? :-p
Where it belongs on your side of the Atlantic, maybe. Over here we
put it where it makes sense, not automatically as part of the
quotation.
The comma goes in the part of the text that it is punctuating - which is
where it makes sense.
If the text inside the quotes concludes with a comma or, if it originally
concluded with a stop or other mark that has been replaced by a comma
because the quote has been subsumed into a sentence such that the quote is
not at the end of the sentence in which it appears, the comma is part of the
quote and is, therefore, inside the quote marks.
"Frames are evil," he said.
If the quote has no associated end-punctuation, the comma is present to
denote a delimiting of the phrasing/structure of the sentence rather than
the quote and the comma is, therefore, outside the quote marks.
I wouldn't go so far as to say "evil", just bad.
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PeterMcC
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