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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

Are the punctuation in the right places?

“No,” I said, my voice raspy.
  

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I'd write "No", I said, my voice raspy.

— Rover_KE

  • I'd write "No", I said, my voice raspy.
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I'd write

"No", I said, my voice raspy.
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Rover_KEI'd write"No", I said, my voice raspy.
A text I used in high school English classes advised that in direct quotations: the commas and periods always come before the quotation marks, not after. I really liked this text because it had an excellent unit called "Punctuation for Meaning" - Idea and Expression , 1978. I'm certain this t
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Philipin direct quotations: the commas and periods always come before the quotation marks, not after.
American. The British version goes the other way round. On this forum you can never tell which way it's going to go.

CJ
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