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When you have a quote and the 'he said' comes after the quote do you use a period or a comma after the quote?
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∙ 14y ago
You would use a comma in that case.
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When do you use a comma and period after the person is speaking in the story?
Use a comma when the person is speaking and the sentence continues (dialogue tag follows), like "I am leaving," she said. Use a period when the person is speaking and the sentence ends, like "I am leaving." She walked out.
How do I know which I should use at the end of a dialogue quote--a period or a comma?
"The punctuation comes inside the ending quotation marks for direct dialogue. "Yes I understand, where to put the comma or period, I would like to know when you should use a period, and when you should use a comma?Place the period or the comma within the quatation marks. Ex: "Jenny," he said "let's have lunch."Place a colon and the semicolon outside the quotation marksExclamation points and the dashes are within the quotation marks when they apply to quoted matter. Place the outside when they do not.
Is a comma necessary before a quote?
"No!", is what my friend said when I asked him that question. (See?)
What does incorrectly punctuated mean?
Incorrectly punctuated means using punctuation marks such as commas, periods, and apostrophes in a way that does not follow the rules of grammar and clarity. This can lead to confusion or misunderstandings in written communication.
Where to put a period in a quote?
Right before the quote ends. For example:He said, "You are a jerk."
Who said the words here's looking at you kid?
This quote comes from the movie Casablanca and the actor, Humphrey Bogart, said it.
Quoting a quote?
A quote is something a person or character said or wrote in his or her life. Example: "Always remember that the future comes one day at a time." (quote was by Dean Acheson).
Do you use a comma after this being said?
Yes, typically a comma is used after "that being said" to indicate a transition between two related but distinct thoughts or ideas in a sentence or conversation.
If a quote is in the middle of a sentence do you still capitalize the first letter after the first quotation mark?
No, they are always used before.Examples:Beginning Quotation: "Tonight, we will eat pizza," I said.Ending Quotation: I said, "Tonight, we will eat pizza."Broken Quotation: "Tonight," I said, "we will eat pizza."See how in each sentence, the comma was always before the quotation marks?
What is the full stop button on peteranswers.com?
I'm not sure why they said full stop button-what they're trying to say is to use the "period" after the comma after peter and after the answer
Yamamoto ''sleeping giant''?
There is no evidence that Yamamoto actually said this. The quote comes from the movie "Tora, Tora, Tora."
How many thousands in 400000?
400000 Insert a comma (NOT a full stop/period/point), at the third zero from the right. The comma marks the thousands. Hence 400,000 So there are 400 of them. The figure is said in words ' four hundred thousand'.
