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Re: [OM] A bit of a tease to start the week

Subject: Re: [OM] A bit of a tease to start the week
From: Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 20:17:18 +0000
Not really, Philippe.  It has no example of when it would be suitable to have 
the punctuation outside the quotation marks.

And it has an example of poor grammar, '“He loved you,” she said, hoping Sue 
didn’t hear her.'

That should read, '. . . hadn't heard . . . '

Chris

On 20 Nov 13, at 13:48, philippe.amard@xxxxxx wrote:

> I hope you, too, will find this link helpful :-) 
> http://theeditorsblog.net/2010/12/08/punctuation-in-dialogue/
> 
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> Message du : 20/11/2013 12:24
> De : "Andrew Fildes " <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> A : "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Sujet : Re: [OM] A bit of a tease to start the week
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> 
> Don't be ridiculous. 
> American inside, non-US outside in all cases. 
> It's nothing to do with reason.
> The corporate style manual rules.
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> On 20/11/2013, at 4:46 PM, Chris Barker wrote:
> 
>> However, the position of the punctuation depends on the sense.  If the 
>> punctuation belongs to the quoted text, that's where it goes. If it belongs 
>> to the sentence as a whole, it goes outside the quotation marks.
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