Mangling English: an occasional rant

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Monday 30 September 2013

Problem punctuation, # 6

A piece in the Education and Family section of the BBC News website offers a variety of methods of concluding direct speech, only one of which is correct:

Link: BBC News, ‘Learn 1,000 words in a new language urges campaign’

The report’s title (shown in the above link) seems sparsely punctuated too. Is the BBC cutting back on commas?

1 comment:

Anonymous30 September 2013 at 14:24
Then there's the occasional wandering comma. Maybe it's sitting on the sidelines in protest.
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