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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
Grammar
Proper use of quotation marks and commas
When using quotation marks with a person's nickname, is it proper to place a following comma outside the quotation marks?
For instance: "The guys at the bar were all regulars, but the Nichols triplets - "Chuck", "Pete", and "Skinny" - had seniority over everyone else."
For instance: "The guys at the bar were all regulars, but the Nichols triplets - "Chuck", "Pete", and "Skinny" - had seniority over everyone else."
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In the US, they go inside. In the UK, they go outside. But I would not use quotation marks around those names.
- In the US, they go inside.
- In the UK, they go outside.
- But I would not use quotation marks around those names.
- There's no reason to.
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In the US, they go inside. In the UK, they go outside. But I would not use quotation marks around those names. There's no reason to.
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