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01cite10Believer12cite10Hi,12br
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10If you have a clause or a sentence in the quotation marks in a sentence, do you have to place a period? More often, I see them not.12br
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10eg,12br
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10Please don't say "You need to go (a period??)" but say "You have to go." 12br

0 Hi Believer02br
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00I don't understand what you are asking.0-

0Thank you, Feebs11 and Yoong Liat.02br
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00Let me clarify what I am trying ot ask: When you have kind of a long sentence that contains a clause or sentence in quotes although a person is not quoting anything *****, do that clause or sentence in quotation marks need to have a period. My understanding that no longer seems valid is that when you have a sentence, no matter wh

0G'day Believer,02br
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00When quoting a sentence you should quote the sentence.02br
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00When you quote part sentences the rest of the punctuation is included so for consistency the final punctuation point should be included.02br
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01cite10Believer12cite10Thank you, Feebs11 and Yoong Liat.12br
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10Let me clarify what I am trying ot ask: When you have kind of a long sentence that contains a clause or sentence in quotes although a person is not quoting anything *****, do that clause or sentence in quotation marks need to have a period. My under

0I would probably do it like this, in contexts such as yours:02br
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001. Say "You have to go to the meeting", not "You need to go to the meeting".02br
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00i.e. without the full stop (or comma, or colon, or semi-colon, as the case may be) in the first quote.02br
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00But exclamation and question marks may be included, e.g.02br

0 Mr P02br
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004. "Yes, when I am upstairs," he 01b00answered; 02b00"but I can't walk upstairs now."02br
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00Why is a semi-colon placed after 'answered' instead of a comma?0-

0Hello YL,02br
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00I would take it as a slightly longer pause than a comma would suggest, and slightly shorter than a full stop.02br
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00All the best,02br
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00MrP0-

0Hi, MrPedantic.02br
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00My satisfaction rate of your response is "Very satisfactory." Congratulations and thank you for you and Clive (and of course, Mr. M) for surpassing the ten-thousand mark. Quite a feat for everyone involved, I would say. 0-

0Thank you, Believer, that's very kind.02br
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00For my part, I'm always very impressed when a non-native student clocks up a large number of posts – asking questions in a foreign language is much more difficult than answering questions in your own!02br
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00All the best,02br
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00MrP0-