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Futurehuman11 Posted 18 years ago
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Comma? Colon? Nothing?

In the sentence below, I'm not sure if I should use punctuation (e.g. a comma or colon) before the quote. Help!



Knight, who was on probation because of previous incidents, was fired in 2000, after 29 years at Indiana, for grabbing the arm of freshman Kent Harvey, who asked him (,?) "Hey, what's up, Knight?" on campus.
  

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"...who had asked him 'Hey,..'." means you can avoid the comma problem.
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Futurehuman11
In the sentence below, I'm not sure if I should use punctuation (e.g. a comma or colon) before the quote. Help!



Knight, who was on probation because of previous incidents, was fired in 2000, after 29 years at Indiana, for grabbing the arm of freshman Kent Harvey, who asked him (,?) "Hey, what's up, Knight?" on campus.
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I would certainly put the comma before a direct quote, so perhaps this is a difference between BrE and AmE. However, your sentence has too many parts. The "after 29 years at Indiana" just seems like it's stuck there.

After 29 years at Indiana, Knight-already on probation for prior incidents-was fired in 2000 for grabbing the arm of freshman Kent Harvey, who had said, "Hey, what
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Hi,

In the sentence below, I'm not sure if I should use punctuation (e.g. a comma or colon) before the quote. Help!

Knight, who was on probation because of previous incidents, was fired in 2000, after 29 years at Indiana, for grabbing the arm of freshman Kent Harvey, who asked him (,?) "Hey, what's up, Knight?" on campus.
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In your example number 3, I don't think the you should use a period.
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01u00Dont put the question mark after him, and dont put it after knight05002u02h3

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