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What he actually said was "Play it, Sam.".

The comma can be omitted if the quotation or question follows a form of the verb to be, is in apposition to a noun, or follows the natural flow of syntax in the sentence.

Jennifer asked, "Would you like to have dinner with me?".

A wise rabbi once said, "Good deeds are better than wise sayings.".

Place a comma after words introducing short quotations. Punctuation before opening quotation marks The guidelines below explain how to combine other punctuation marks with opening and closing quotation marks.

(A similar topic is discussed in French in the article PONCTUATION AVEC LES GUILLEMETS.)

Quotations: punctuation with quotation marks