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“As a result, the experiences of Britain’s black communities of the Home Office, of the law, and of life in the UK have been fundamentally different from those of white communities,” the report states.
Should there be a comma after communities?
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anonymous Should there be a comma after communities? By British rules, if the report has a full stop or a comma after "communities", then the comma goes inside the quotation marks, and the quotation marks should be single. If the sentence does not end there in the report and there is no comma, the comma goes outside.
- anonymous Should there be a comma after communities?
- By British rules, if the report has a full stop or a comma after "communities", then the comma goes inside the quotation marks, and the quotation marks should be single.
- If the sentence does not end there in the report and there is no comma, the comma goes outside.
- By US rules, the comma goes inside the double quotes in any case.
- The comma is required in both styles because of the dialogue tag "X said".
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anonymousShould there be a comma after communities?
By British rules, if the report has a full stop or a comma after "communities", then the comma goes inside the quotation marks, and the quotation marks should be single. If the sentence does not end there in the report and there is no comma, the comma goes outside. By US rules, the comma goes inside the do
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