Re: Punctuation question

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

Geez . . . did I say this? What I meant to say was that I would put it
outside the QUESTION MARK since it is part of the question posed by the
title. Like this:

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

I too, like Sally, have heard that one should not use a question mark and
comma together, but somehow (armed with nothing more autoritative than my
own sense of syntactic aesthetics) clearly setting off a prepostional
phrase seems better to me.

Jim

At 02:36 PM 10/23/98 -0700, you wrote:
>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:
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>In Oates's short story "Where are you Going, Where Have You Been?", Arnold
>Friend trys . . .
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>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.
>>>
>>>Does the comma work after the introductory element in the following
>sentence?
>>>
>>>In Oates's short story "Where are you Going, Where Have You Been?," Arnold
>>>Friend trys . . .
>>>
>>>Should the comma simply be omitted in this case?
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