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  • Jan 30, 2012, 05:56 AM
    umpire56
    Correct punctuation in sentences?
    However during a follow up inspection, that addressed the violations in the investigation, Smith stated to Jones that this has not been done
  • Jan 30, 2012, 06:46 AM
    joypulv
    However, during a follow-up inspection that addressed the violations in the investigation, Smith stated to Jones that this has not been done.
  • Feb 14, 2012, 03:00 PM
    KReid
    However, during a follow up inspection that addressed the violations in the investigation, Smith stated to Jones that "This has not been done".
  • Feb 14, 2012, 03:19 PM
    Wondergirl
    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.

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