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Anonymous  #514510  Fri, 16 May 08 06:19 PM

Enclosed is an article, “Traditional Small Business Marketing is Dead.” I wanted to share with you this article and hope that you might find the information useful.

 

Is the above sentence grammatically correct along with the commas used?

 

Thank you in advance for your help.

  
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Feebs11  #514534  Fri, 16 May 08 07:20 PM
 The only alteration I would make is to put the full stop outside the quotation marks round the article title.
  
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Grammar Geek  #514541  Fri, 16 May 08 07:43 PM

If you are writing this for a US audience, then the period stays inside the quotes.

 

  
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optilang  #514543  Fri, 16 May 08 08:00 PM
 I would write this sentence as follows:

 

Enclosed is an article (entitled), "Traditional Small Business Marketing is Dead". I wanted to share this article with you and hope that you will find the information useful.

  

  
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Grammar Geek  #514563  Fri, 16 May 08 09:25 PM

Ah, optilang makes a good point:

wanted to share with you this article  reads more naturally as wanted to share this article with you

  
Clive  #514621  Sat, 17 May 08 12:59 AM

Hi guys,

I'd say either  I wanted . . .  and hoped . . .   or   I want . . .   and hope  . . .

I prefer the latter.

Best wishes, Clive

PS Instead of repeating the word 'article', I'd just use the pronoun 'it'.

  
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