Run-on sentences
Geoff Bannister
gbannister10 at tiscali.co.uk
Fri Apr 3 22:16:41 UTC 2009
--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "sistermagpie" <sistermagpie at ...> wrote:
>
> > Carol responds:
> > Thanks. As you can see, I did comment on one of them. BTW, in American English (as opposed to British English) the quotation marks follow the period even if you're just quoting a word or phrase, so the correct way to end your sentence on run-ons would be "run-on sentence." Sorry to be picky, but you asked for commentary!
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> Magpie:
> Thanks, Carol! I always think that's right but lately have gotten insecure about quotations after periods. I must have been reading British English texts and it got into my head that I was doing it wrong!
Geoff:
If it's UK English, you can't go wrong.
<eg>
I shall stick to speech marks before full stops. so there.
:-)
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