It's about addressing someone by name, when the name - the vocative - should be marked off with commas.

Is it? erm... bugger. (quick rescan of page) - ah, now I see where my comma versus full stop argument came in.

I'll stick with my "wrong" method, though.

Just to clear this up. I think I've found the answer. If the action, in the context of the piece, indicates speech, then you can use a comma. So "nudged" indicates speech. "stopped" doesn't, but "looked up" might.

Clear as mud.

Hi!

As I was getting thoroughly confused, I opted for this:

She stopped when he called, “You forgot something.”

I think that's a happy compromise?

Jen
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No need to get confused, I'm just too stupid to admit I'm wrong. If in doubt, go with the majority.

Although in the case of your sentence, now it's him calling out, when it was her before - wasn't it?

Hi Colin-M

See how confused I got?

The original had that line with 'her' calling out and the same sort of problems arose with those commenting on the use of commas very like the one here.

So I threw up my hands and tried to re-work it on my second draft to avoid such things.

Who knew writing a sentence correctly and perfectly could be so hard?

Jen
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