[PW] Re: ?punctuation question

[Druzz]

  DEAR JOHN HENDERSON:
  > Where would you add the commas in this sentence:
  > When I've been asked the question "What did your father do in the 
war?"
  > my reply has been "He tasted butter."
  > John Henderson

  Of course, I'm not a specialist. But I'm guided by logic.
  There'is an additional mistake I would fix before all:
  The last, closing [ " ] cannot go AFTER the period [ . ],
  because the two [ " " ] must embrace the reply, like this:

  - When I've been asked the question "What did
  your father do in the war?", my replay has been
  "He tasted butter". (= the period AFTER the closing [ " ]).

  Thus, I think (I just think!) the only two correct forms
  goes like this:

  a)
  - When I've been asked the question "What did
  your father do in the war?", my replay has been
  "He tasted butter".

  b)
  - When I've been asked the question, "What did
  your father do in the war?", my replay has been,
  "He tasted butter".

  Sorry for any silly comment by me,
  Evandro da Nóbrega [Druzz]

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: "John Henderson" <jhenderson at ithaca.edu>
  To: "stumpers list" <list at project-wombat.org>
  Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 4:55 PM
  Subject: [PW] ?punctuation question


  > Scouring grammar books and web sites, I can't find a definitive 
answer
  > to this question of punctuation.
  > Where would you add the commas in this sentence:
  > When I've been asked the question "What did your father do in the 
war?"
  > my reply has been "He tasted butter."
  >
  > John Henderson
  > Ithaca College Library
  > jhenderson at ithaca.edu
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