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Old 12-07-2011, 12:58 PM   #27
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so USA would read "thanks ," he said. "That's helpful."
but UK would read "thanks", he said. "That's helpful".

i.e. I should put punctuation inside the speech marks.

Then this—or that—option is how it should be done in print.

the MS Word grammar checker seems not to care whether spaces are added

are there web sites/text books that have all these rules, for future reference ?
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