Where does this comma go?
| Thu, Dec 22 2011 04:55am GMT 1 |
stephenterry
1882 Posts
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I'm using single quotation marks for speech, and double for speech
within a speech - if that makes sense. My editor changed V one (to
V two) where I had put a comma after the double quotation marks. Is
this correct? Highlighted in bold.
V one
'A fat man, Chinese, came for me. Brought me here … you were on the
floor … I thought you were dead. Fat man kicked you. “Fish
food”, he said.’
V two
A fat man, Chinese, came for me. Brought me here … you were on the
floor … I thought you were dead. Fat man kicked you. “Fish
food,” he said.’
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| Thu, Dec 22 2011 05:43am GMT 2 |
Malcolm
700 Posts
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Ignoring the speech within aspeech aspect V2 would be correct in
normal usage. I cant see that your small variation would change
that.
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| Thu, Dec 22 2011 08:36am GMT 3 |
Spangles
752 Posts
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Yes, version 2 is correct.
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| Thu, Dec 22 2011 10:14am GMT 4 |
EmmaD
1997 Posts
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Wot Spangles said. Punctuation at the end of a piece of dialogue
goes inside the "s. The fact that the whole lot is inside a longer
piece of dialogue doesn't change that.
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| Fri, Dec 23 2011 02:01am GMT 5 |
stephenterry
1882 Posts
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Thanks - consensus. Much appreciated.
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