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EyeSeeYou Posted 19 years ago
Essay & Composition Writing

Use of single commas in this case

"He'll probably smile and say 'I always do what she tells me'. He might actually, without knowing it, to a certain extent. The point is that when he arrived..."

Shouldn't the single comma be placed after the stop?
  

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It's not a comma-- it's a single quotation mark. AmE likes the period outside and BrE likes the period inside (or maybe it's vice versa). I like it inside.

— Mister Micawber

  • It's not a comma-- it's a single quotation mark.
  • AmE likes the period outside and BrE likes the period inside (or maybe it's vice versa).
  • I like it inside.
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It's not a comma-- it's a single quotation mark. AmE likes the period outside and BrE likes the period inside (or maybe it's vice versa). I like it inside.
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Mister Micawber
It's not a comma-- it's a single quotation mark. AmE likes the period outside and BrE likes the period inside (or maybe it's vice versa). I like it inside.

Yes, sorry, I meant single quotation mark. I don't know what I was thinking. I asked that since pretty much all the texts in English I've ever seen had the period first then t
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