Re: Punctuation question

[Jim Adams <adams001@coyote.csusm.edu>]

I would keep the comma since it ends an introductory prepositional phrase,
but I'd put it outside the quotation marks since it it is part of the
question posed by the title, not the writer. Like this:

In Oates's short story "Where are you Going, Where Have You Been?", Arnold
Friend trys . . .



At 02:40 PM 10/23/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Using the model of the following:
>"Where are you going?" she asked.
>I would omit the comma entirely.
>On the other hand, I'd probably play it safe and recast the sentence!
>susan
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>>I've searched for an example of this type of scenario in the handbooks
>>and am at a loss to find one. Could someone give me some guidance on this.
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>>Does the comma work after the introductory element in the following
sentence?
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>>In Oates's short story "Where are you Going, Where Have You Been?," Arnold
>>Friend trys . . .
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>>Should the comma simply be omitted in this case?
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