diff --git a/java/src/com/android/inputmethod/latin/LatinIME.java b/java/src/com/android/inputmethod/latin/LatinIME.java
index e755fa4a6..8ddf8d851 100644
--- a/java/src/com/android/inputmethod/latin/LatinIME.java
+++ b/java/src/com/android/inputmethod/latin/LatinIME.java
@@ -1895,6 +1895,14 @@ public class LatinIME extends InputMethodServiceCompatWrapper implements Keyboar
         mVoiceProxy.flushAndLogAllTextModificationCounters(index, suggestion,
                 mSettingsValues.mWordSeparators);
 
+        if (SPACE_STATE_PHANTOM == mSpaceState && suggestion.length() > 0) {
+            int firstChar = Character.codePointAt(suggestion, 0);
+            if ((!mSettingsValues.isWeakSpaceStripper(firstChar))
+                    && (!mSettingsValues.isWeakSpaceSwapper(firstChar))) {
+                sendKeyCodePoint(Keyboard.CODE_SPACE);
+            }
+        }
+
         if (mInputAttributes.mApplicationSpecifiedCompletionOn
                 && mApplicationSpecifiedCompletions != null
                 && index >= 0 && index < mApplicationSpecifiedCompletions.length) {
diff --git a/tests/src/com/android/inputmethod/latin/InputLogicTests.java b/tests/src/com/android/inputmethod/latin/InputLogicTests.java
index e3911f22f..50aba7b94 100644
--- a/tests/src/com/android/inputmethod/latin/InputLogicTests.java
+++ b/tests/src/com/android/inputmethod/latin/InputLogicTests.java
@@ -404,7 +404,32 @@ public class InputLogicTests extends ServiceTestCase<LatinIME> {
         type(WORD1_TO_TYPE);
         mLatinIME.pickSuggestionManually(0, WORD1_TO_TYPE);
         type(WORD2_TO_TYPE);
-        assertEquals("manual pick then space then type", WORD1_TO_TYPE + WORD2_TO_TYPE,
+        assertEquals("manual pick then space then type", EXPECTED_RESULT,
+                mTextView.getText().toString());
+    }
+
+    public void testManualPickThenManualPick() {
+        final String WORD1_TO_TYPE = "this";
+        final String WORD2_TO_PICK = "is";
+        final String EXPECTED_RESULT = "this is";
+        type(WORD1_TO_TYPE);
+        mLatinIME.pickSuggestionManually(0, WORD1_TO_TYPE);
+        // Here we fake picking a word through bigram prediction. This test is taking
+        // advantage of the fact that Latin IME blindly trusts the caller of #pickSuggestionManually
+        // to actually pass the right string.
+        mLatinIME.pickSuggestionManually(1, WORD2_TO_PICK);
+        assertEquals("manual pick then manual pick", EXPECTED_RESULT,
+                mTextView.getText().toString());
+    }
+
+    public void testManualPickThenManualPickWithPunctAtStart() {
+        final String WORD1_TO_TYPE = "this";
+        final String WORD2_TO_PICK = "!is";
+        final String EXPECTED_RESULT = "this!is";
+        type(WORD1_TO_TYPE);
+        mLatinIME.pickSuggestionManually(0, WORD1_TO_TYPE);
+        mLatinIME.pickSuggestionManually(1, WORD2_TO_PICK);
+        assertEquals("manual pick then manual pick a word with punct at start", EXPECTED_RESULT,
                 mTextView.getText().toString());
     }