comma after direct speech (mid-sentence, BrE; quotation): leave", Tom

Per Logical/British punctuation, I believe that the comma falls outside the ending quote marks because the comma isn't a part of the quotation itself. Is this correct?

When Victor said, "Please make sure you close the door when you leave", Tom accidentally forgot to close it.

Thank you.

Personally, I would omit the first comma, but would treat the second comma in the same way as you.

By saying 'Logical/British', are you implying something about American punctuation? :eek:

<< Moderator note: Moonglow - you are aware there are online guides to punctuation. Some can be found in the resources section of the 4th post in the second sticky post of this very forum. For your convenience, and to encourage you to find out for yourself what the guides recommend, I have copied and pasted them below. You will notice that there are two covering BrE (first and last in the list). Just as we encourage posters to search the dictionary and forum to see if their question has already been asked, we hope you will take a little time to look through those resources to answer your punctuation questions before posting a new thread. As an example here is what the Oxford link has to say on your question

Using commas in direct speech
When a writer quotes a speaker’s words exactly as they were spoken, this is known as direct speech. If the piece of direct speech comes after the information about who is speaking, you need to use a comma to introduce the direct speech. The comma comes before the first quotation mark. Note that the final quotation mark follows the full stop at the end of the direct speech:

Steve replied, ‘No problem.’​

You also need to use a comma at the end of a piece of direct speech, if the speech comes before the information about who is speaking. In this case, the comma goes inside the quotation mark:

‘I don’t agree,’ I replied.
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‘Here we are,' they said
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However, if you feel the answers and examples provided in those guides are not clear enough, we can then help out.
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Punctuation
UK English, University of Sussex:
http://www.informatics.sussex.ac.uk/...on/node00.html

US English, Capital Community College Foundation:
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/marks/marks.htm

US English, the Owl at Purdue University:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/566/01/

US Government Printing Office:
Start at http://www.gpoaccess.gov/stylemanual/ and search for punctuation.

The most feared punctuation on earth, by The Oatmeal:

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How to use a semi-colon.

Oxford Dictionaries guidance:
http://oxforddictionaries.com/page/betterwritingpunctuation

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