A Personal Representative who has been granted legal authority to act on behalf of an. incompetent adult patient or a minor patient can make health care decisions regarding the. patientâs health care and can also assist in exercising the patientâs rights related to protected. health information.
Exception: Don't use a comma with the greeting Dear, as in: Dear Claudio: Dear Claudio, If you are wondering why I have shown the Dear Claudio greeting (salutation) with both a colon and a comma, the colon (:) is used in business letters. The comma is used in personal ones (congratulations, condolences).
The dialogue is enclosed in quotation marks. A comma follows the dialogue and comes before the closing quotation mark. The dialogue tag is next and the action follows the tagâno capital letter because this is part of the same sentenceâwith a period to end the sentence.