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Hello,
I am just trying to find out if you put a comma before all quotes????
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The following text is from Simon & Schuster Handbook for Writers (Second Edition):
Use a comma to set off quoted words from short explanations in the same sentence. This rule holds whether the explanatory words come before, between, or after the quoted words. Examples:
"My love is a fever," said William Shakespeare about love's passion.
"I love no love," procalimed poet Mary Coleridge, "but thee."
This use of commas is especially important in communicating conversations or other direct discourse. Explanatory words like she said, they replied, and he answered are called speaker tags, and they are always set off from immediately following words of direct discourse...
When explanatory words have that just before the quoted words, however, do no use a comma after that. Example:
Shakespeare also wrote that "Love's not Time's fool."
Shaw quipped that "Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else."
Sometimes conversation is conveyed through indirect discourse. The writer does not use direct quotation but instead paraphrases material. Do not use a comma after that in indirect discourse. Example:
Shakespeare also wrote that people should be true to themselves.
Exceptions...
If you have made quoted words part of the structure of your own sentence, do not capitalize the first quoted word, and do not set them off with a comma. Example:
Mrs. Saintonge says that when students visit a country whose language they are trying to learn, they "absorb a good accent with the food."
Winking, she encouraged me to try "very speedy persistence."
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Applying these rules to your sample paragraph above, I would not use the two commas that I've highlighted in red above.