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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

narration

He said," I did not write a letter".
  

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It should be:

He said, "I did not write a letter".

(note position of space)

But in a narrative often this style would be used:

He said, "I did not write a letter."

(note position of full stop).

Personally I see no logical justification for the comma, but traditionally you see it used like this.

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