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Logical punctuation: Should we start placing commas outside quotation marks? - 0 views

    • Catherine Bushby
       
      Today's students are living in the middle of this shift. They are watching the change happen. 
  • A punctuation paradigm is shifting.
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  • But the main reason is that the British way simply makes more sense. Indeed, since at least the 1960s a common designation for that style has been "logical punctuation."
  • t was instituted in the early days of the Republic in order "to improve the appearance of the text. A comma or period that follows a closing quotation mark appears to hang off by itself and creates a gap in the line (since the space over the mark combines with the following word space)."
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Test Practice - 0 views

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    Interactive test practice for rdg comp. 3-5
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    A link to many websites to practice reading online.
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