I was taught to insert the comma. However, British punctuation is different and I don't necessarily know all the differences. If the comma is not there consistently I would suppose that it was intended. If it is missing only occasionally I would assume that it was missed by the OCR and replace it.
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To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2010 2:12 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] question about sentence structure/punctuation Hey everyone,In a recently-completed scan, the author dealt with dialog in a less common way than I generally see. The author is British, and therefore the approach may be something more common in that part of the world.
What I would see is something like the following sentence: The momentary silence allowed me to say "Where are we going?"So, the sentence starts with a few words, then leads into the line of dialog. Should there be a comma after the final word preceding the start of dialog? Or can this go either way?
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