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New Hope Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

Punctuation

Do we need to put some punctuation after the word "instruction" in the sentence below.?
The baby elephant remembered his mother''s instruction "Dear son, never leave your herd."
  

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Yes - either a comma (,) introducing the quotation, or a colon (:) preparing the reader for what has just been announced (his mother's instruction).

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  • Yes - either a comma (,) introducing the quotation, or a colon (:) preparing the reader for what has just been announced (his mother's instruction).
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Yes - either a comma (,) introducing the quotation, or a colon (:) preparing the reader for what has just been announced (his mother's instruction).
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A comma would be usual.

mother"s should be mother's.
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