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Slide green 338 Posted 9 years ago
Grammar

: before qutations and use of 'the'

Hey there!

I have two questions.

1) can I use a colon before speech quotation like this:

Jamie told Ben: "Let's go eat."

2) In a kids book, is it ok to write:

'When the evening came'

meaning when the day became evening..

or maybe I should say: 'When evening came'

Or is none of them correct?


Thank you so much!

  

Top answer

1) The usual way would be to use a comma instead of a colon. "

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1) The usual way would be to use a comma instead of a colon.

2) Leave out the word "the."

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A comma used to be standard before a quoted sentence, but these days, no punctuation mark is needed.

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