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Nested quotations & internal commas: an edge case
What did Bob say? "Hello." — probably with a period after it. One convention (I believe there are others) is to turn periods into commas when you quote text and the period doesn't fall at ...
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Nested quotations & internal commas: an edge case
There is absolutely no need for the commas before the reported speech. Either of them.
The best version of this sentence is:
Alice says "Bob said 'Hello,'" and she smiles at the memory.
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