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umpire56
Jan 30, 2012, 05:56 AM
However during a follow up inspection, that addressed the violations in the investigation, Smith stated to Jones that this has not been done

joypulv
Jan 30, 2012, 06:46 AM
However, during a follow-up inspection that addressed the violations in the investigation, Smith stated to Jones that this has not been done.

KReid
Feb 14, 2012, 03:00 PM
However, during a follow up inspection that addressed the violations in the investigation, Smith stated to Jones that "This has not been done".

Wondergirl
Feb 14, 2012, 03:19 PM
I agree with joypulv.

"However" is an interrupter and needs a comma after it. "Follow-up" is a compound adjective and needs a hyphen. There's no comma after the first "that." Quotation marks are not needed after the second "that." The sentence gets a period at the end.