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Old 09-12-2014, 07:25 AM   #26
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Originally Posted by cybmole View Post
where would I find the applicable "rules" or "best practice" actually defined ?

I don't recall ever being taught this in English lessons - just that speech should be placed in quotation marks.

would it be in guides to grammar, or punctuation ?
I honestly don't know, I'm afraid. It's something I'm not consciously aware of not having known, if you see what I mean, although I'm sure I must have been taught it in an English lesson at some point in the dim and distant past.

It's definitely punctuation, not grammar. I imagine that any decent English "style guide" would cover it. Fowler's "Modern English Usage" (a well-known British English style guide) certainly does.
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