Monday, January 30, 2012

commas - Punctuation before ending a quotation

I was reading an article and came across this sentence:




“Much wow, Bercow hid his opposition to Brexit so very well when he was Speaker.,” Mark Wallace, executive editor of ConservativeHome, tweeted.





This quote is punctuated with a period and a comma. Is this a mistake?



When I was reading on English grammar, I was told to punctuate quotes in the following way:




"Much wow, Bercow hid his opposition to Brexit so very well when he was speaker," tweeted Mark Wallace, executive editor of ConservativeHome.




I did change the structure around, though. Perhaps it is necessary to put a period before the comma when using their word order?

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