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I am new and I came across this website as a result of a Google search for punctuation marks. I am actually doing a lot of editing and proofreading these days. The writer I am currently working on seems to detest introducing quoted material with anything so mundane as "He said, she...

Hi Jean-David, welcome to the forums! It's common to see foreign language words in English text, you can include it without any extra punctuation - However robboe's suggestion is also fine.

Can anyone help me with the punctuation needed for the following: Clay laughed to himslef and thought, "What a woman!" Does the character's thought get quotation marks? Thanks, ~Lisa

In American English, the standard practice is to put the punctuation (period, comma, etc.) inside double quotes: "Hello," she said. The exception is if there is some special need to make sure that the reader not think that the punctuation was part of the original source you are quoting, then you...

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I don't think there is a good reason. I believe the convention arose because printers found that it was easier to read and worked better with the printing technology of the day... or some such thing. But don't quote me on that; I could be wrong.

Hey Carla, good to have you back! What on earth would be the reasoning behind that?! They have got a good reason right? I'm not even going into the 'centre/center' debate. Also see our frequently asked questions

FYI, in the United States almost all punctuation goes inside the quotation marks, so there the former would be correct. In the United Kingdom (and therefore Europe, I assume) it would be outside though, as hitchhiker says.

I'd say definitely the latter.. a) The punctuation is not part of the quote, so it shouldn't be inside the quotation marks. b) The punctuation is separating the quote from the rest of the sentence, hence it's appearance outside. "...fighting in the area", which indicates that.. is correct in...

When using quotation marks, does one insert punctuation marks that are not actually part of the quotation inside or outside the closing quotation mark? Examples: "...there was much fighting in the area," which indicates that .... or should it be: "...fighting in the area", which indicates...