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For some reason, in school in Britain in the 1980s, we were taught rather religiously to always end anything inside speech marks with a comma. I'm not sure wher
by bencollier49 5y ago
For some reason, in school in Britain in the 1980s, we were taught rather religiously to always end anything inside speech marks with a comma. I'm not sure where this style comes from, but it confused me terribly and took me years to correct.
- jsmith99 5y agohttps://english.stackexchange.com/questions/195902/ending-a-quotation-in-a-comma https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/195902/ending-a-... suggests this is the style recommended by Oxford Dictionaries.