Anonymous  +  885439 Thu, 03 Sep 09 08:44 PM Is the period in the correct place in the following sentence:   The applicant shall design a stormwater treatment facility that complies with the June 2009 version of the "City and Borough of Juneau Manual of Stormwater Best Management Practices". Anonymous Punctuation, Writing, Sentences

	ferdis  +  885463 Thu, 03 Sep 09 09:06 PM Yes, but I'm not sure the quotes are used correctly ferdis Joined on Tue, Aug 4 2009 The Netherlands Full Member 388 Punctuation, Writing

	Anonymous  suggested by Anonymous  +  885486 Thu, 03 Sep 09 09:26 PM In the United States, the period is always inside the quotation marks: "...Best Management Practices."   Anonymous Punctuation, Quotation Marks, Writing, Countries, United States

	Grammar Geek  +  885776 Fri, 04 Sep 09 02:18 AM Anonymous “In the United States, the period is always inside the quotation marks: "...Best Management Practices."   ” Agreed. Put the period inside the quote. Grammar Geek Joined on Tue, Jan 10 2006 Veteran Member 19,683 Barbara, who answers in American English. My housekeeping skills attest to the truth of the second law of thermodynamics: Left to themselves, things get more and more random! Punctuation, Quotation Marks, Writing, Countries, United States

	ferdis  +  886287 Fri, 04 Sep 09 10:35 AM Oh, I see. In AmE the comma goes inside, but in BrE it goes outside because it is not part of the thing quoted. This same rule is, however, followed for exlamation and question marks in AmE.   (BrE) John said, "Everybody must act now." John said we "must act".     ferdis Commas, Punctuation, Question Marks, Writing

	kimlrobles  +  886319 Fri, 04 Sep 09 11:12 AM Well, I can finally put this one to bed:  In The Grammar Bible, which I love as a reference, it states that "the comma and the period go inside the closing quotation marks at all times.  There are no exceptions to this rule" (Strumpf and Douglas 446).   kimlrobles Joined on Thu, Aug 27 2009 New Member 48 Commas, Punctuation, Quotation Marks, Writing, References, Business, Career

	ferdis  +  886339 Fri, 04 Sep 09 11:32 AM kimlrobles “Well, I can finally put this one to bed:  In The Grammar Bible, which I love as a reference, it states that "the comma and the period go inside the closing quotation marks at all times.  There are no exceptions to this rule" (Strumpf and Douglas 446).   ”   That must be an American bible then For example, the Penguin Writer's Manual states, "When the quoted words do not form a full sentence, then there should be no capital letter and the full stop should appear outside the inverted commas because it belongs to the sentence in which the quotation appears, not to the quotation itself ... American usage differs from British usage at this point. In American usage, full stops and commas come inside the quotation marks." All the reference books I have agree on this point. Frankly, I find the British rule more logical. In American usage the full stop is only placed inside the quotation marks by convention because of the way type setting was done. Other punctuation marks are placed outside. Apparently, these did not, like the full stop, shift position when printing.     ferdis Capital Letters, Commas, Punctuation, Quotation Marks, Writing, Sentences, References, Business, Career, Countries, United States, Usages, American

	kimlrobles  +  886353 Fri, 04 Sep 09 11:49 AM Yes, I unwittingly forgot the "world wide" part of this forum. How colonial of me! By the way, thank you for the history lesson.  I happen to agree that the British way is more logical. kimlrobles Punctuation, Writing