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Date Posted: 01:19:29 07/14/02 Sun
Author: Kelso
Subject: Re: Fanfic Pet Peeves
In reply to: Kelso 's message, "Re: Fanfic Pet Peeves" on 13:59:00 06/25/02 Tue

>"Thanks Buffy," Xander said.
>forgive me, but I thought the last one was right. As a non->native speaker I might have learned a different or wrong >grammer, but I always thought the comma comes before the >quotation mark. Or do you mean the missing comma between >"thanks" and "Buffy"?


Yes, the missing comma is what I meant.
The sentence
"Thanks, Buffy," said Xander
would be correct.

Sometimes I'll be reading a good story with almost no mistakes. Then I'll run into sentences like "Hi Wesley" or "Tara I hate you!" and the missing commas really irritate me.

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