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30 August, 06:47

Read the sentence.

Yesterday the professor said, "I will collect your papers tomorrow" however, he never did collect them.

Where should the semicolon be placed?

Yesterday the professor said, "I will collect your papers tomorrow"; however, he never did collect them.

Yesterday the professor said, "I will collect your papers tomorrow; " however, he never did collect them.

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  1. 30 August, 07:55
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    From the given sentence above, the semicolon should be placed after the closing quotation mark, before the word "however". So the correctly punctuated sentence would be, Yesterday the professor said, "I will collect your papers tomorrow"; however, he never did collect them. It is a general rule that semicolons and colons should be outside the quotation marks.
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