Commas with direct quotations

Use commas to set off the words introducing direct quotations.

Example sentence with editing. Original sentence: Naturalist Arthur Cleveland Bent once remarked “In part the peregrine declined unnoticed because it is not adorable.” Revised sentence: Naturalist Arthur Cleveland Bent once remarked, “In part the peregrine declined unnoticed because it is not adorable.”

Exercises:

Major uses of the comma 1

Major uses of the comma 2

All uses of the comma

Related topic:

Quotation marks with direct quotations