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Avoid these grammar mistakes with quotation marks.
First of all, in American English,
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the comma or the period always goes inside
the quotation mark. He said, "I love you,".
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Should you capitalize the first letter of the
quote if it's in the middle of a sentence?
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Yes if what's quoted is a complete sentence.
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What he told me was, "It's
supposed to rain tonight."
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It's supposed to rain tonight. Full sentence,
capital I. If it's not a full sentence,
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don't capitalize it. For example, he
said tonight, it's going to be, "rainy,
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chilly, and all-around awful."
Punctuation quick tips!
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