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Or did you really mean die , die, DIE? :)
Or der, die, das...?
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Yes; so the period inside the quotes is redundant, and that one should be removed. The outside sentence can continue after the quote; the terminating period outside of the quote is necessary if the sentence is ending there. We know that the quote has ended with the closing quote, and so we can agree on the convention that there is an implied period there, if the quoted material is a complete clause with subject and v…
Apologies on the long delay. I forgot I had posted. :( I meant my point mostly tongue in cheek. Redundancy is not necessarily bad. I do have trouble reading your sentence, though. The change of voice in a declarative sentence to interrogative without a stop, is kind of jarring. In that one, I'd leave off the quote and question mark, I think. That all said, I think I mainly agree that it is all guidelines and mostly d…
> He asked me what time it is, and ....
Now we have an embedded wh-clause, not an embedded quote. Embedded wh-clauses are not questions.
(One piece of evidence: subject and auxiliary are not inverted, appearing as it is rather than is it.)