Punctuation question: All ... than you do.'

English as a Second Language English Vocabulary, Grammar and Idioms
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This question concerns quotation marks occurring at the end of sentences.

Take this sentence, for example:
All he said was ‘I don’t know any more about that than you do’

The question is how to punctuate the end of the sentence:
a) All…than you do.’.
b) All…than you do.’
c) All…than you do’.
d) none of the above

I guess the essence of my question is whether one can end a sentence with a quotation mark. I didn’t pay much attention to this in the past and used to do as in a). I have recently been told that b) is correct. I am least inclined toward c).
Thanks!

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Brits supposedly are guided to do B; Yanks supposedly are guided to do C. I’m not sure how your question mark fits into this scheme.
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Hello, Mister Micawber

If you were to write this sentence, how would you? If I am not mistaken, there should be a comma after All he said was

Waiting for the answer… :lol:

Tom

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Hi Tom
I also will give an answer to your question.

I am sure that some people would put a comma after ‘was’ but others, including myself, don’t get too carried away with commas; we only use them ‘when needed’. :wink: