Quotation Marks: Where Do the Periods and Commas Go--And Why? - 0 views
grammartips.homestead.com/inside.html
quotation marks punctuation grammar sentence english language language learning reference learning
shared by izz aty on 09 Apr 12
- No Cached
-
use a question mark or an exclamation point with a sentence that ends in a quotation, we follow the dictates of logic in determining where the question mark or exclamation point goes
-
part of the quotation itself, we put it inside the quotation marks, and if it governs the sentence as a whole but not the material being quoted, we put it outside the quotation marks
- ...8 more annotations...
-
rule applies even when the unit enclosed at the end of the sentence is just a single word rather than an actual quotation
-
British don't do it that way. They are inclined to place commas and periods logically rather than conventionally, depending on whether the punctuation belongs to the quotation or to the sentence that contains the quotation, just as we do with question marks and exclamation points.
-
if another set of words or a parenthetical citation gets between the quoted material and the end of a sentence, then the comma or period will follow the intervening elements
-
when that last little item enclosed in quotation marks is just a letter or a number, in which case the period or comma will go outside the closing quotation marks
-
if you are an American, you need to keep your commas and periods inside your closing quotation marks
-
only American printers were more attached to convenience than logic, since British printers continued to risk the misalignment of their periods and commas