How you say it

When you are supplying attribution to a direct quote, it's best to follow two simple patterns. The first: If the attribution is a name only, put said after the name. " Said suffices," John McIntyre said. The second: If the name is paired with an explanatory phrase, put said before the name. "Don't go all Tom Swifty on me," said John McIntyre, the author of The Old Editor Says . The reason for this…