Anonymous Posted 20 years ago
Grammar
Few basic questions
Hi,
I hope someone can enlighten me.
I have a few basic questions about punctuation, especially within speach marks.
I was always under the impression that when using speech marks you ended with a full stop then the next sentence started with a capital letter like this :
"Hello." Replied the man. "How are you today?"
Am I totally wrong? Because I'm seeing more and more people putting comma's and not capitalizing the new sentence, like this:
"Hello," replied the man. "How are you today?"
So now I think I'm overdoing it punctuation wise and if I'm completely wrong I don't want to be giving the kids wrong information.
Also, is a question mark treated in the same way as a full stop? As in you capitalize the first letter after it.
Any clarification here would be fabulous.
Thanks in advance.
I hope someone can enlighten me.
I have a few basic questions about punctuation, especially within speach marks.
I was always under the impression that when using speech marks you ended with a full stop then the next sentence started with a capital letter like this :
"Hello." Replied the man. "How are you today?"
Am I totally wrong? Because I'm seeing more and more people putting comma's and not capitalizing the new sentence, like this:
"Hello," replied the man. "How are you today?"
So now I think I'm overdoing it punctuation wise and if I'm completely wrong I don't want to be giving the kids wrong information.
Also, is a question mark treated in the same way as a full stop? As in you capitalize the first letter after it.
Any clarification here would be fabulous.
Thanks in advance.
Top answer
" Replied the man. " Is very rare in the literature. I'd say forget about it.
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"Hello." Replied the man. "How are you today?"
Is very rare in the literature.
I'd say forget about it.
The other is the idiomatic way of reporting things.
Is very rare in the literature.
I'd say forget about it.
The other is the idiomatic way of reporting things.
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Thanks for thee reply.
So both are right? It just depends on the writer which is used?
So both are right? It just depends on the writer which is used?
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Anonymous So both are right? It just depends on the writer which is used?I think only this one is right:
"Hello," replied the man. "How are you today?"
The man replied "Hello."
You can't separate this into too sentences with a dot, under normal circumstances.
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make a search at Yahoo with
"Hello replied the"
(quotation marks are important)
and you will see what examples show up.
most, if not all, are using the comma ...
"Hello replied the"
(quotation marks are important)
and you will see what examples show up.
most, if not all, are using the comma ...
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I was using that sentance as an example. I see the comma used a lot in writing these days but I always thought that whatever is said in speach marks was to end with a fill stop.
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Speech that continues does not need to end in a full stop, unless it is clearly the end of a sentence. Speech can also end with a question mark or an exclamation mark.
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