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Here is another interesting question. From what i understand, italics replaced the need for underlining for books and using quotation marks for periodicals. Is this true. What about leaflets or handouts. "The tracking form and Dental Progress Notes were changed." Dental Progress Notes may...

To me, the rules regarding punctuation around quotation marks are not always logical. To 'remember' them, I extracted the following from Webster's Third New International Dictionary: 13.1 Direct quotations: "When I am dead," said one of the keenest minds, "lay a sword on my coffin." 13.2 In...

2. What needs to be done to correct the following sentence? Have you read the article entitled, "Increase Your Vocabulary?" a) The sentence is correctly punctuated. b) Remove the comma after entitled and place the question mark outside the end quotation marks. c) Remove the comma after...

2. What needs to be done to correct the following sentence? Have you read the article entitled, "Increase Your Vocabulary?" a) The sentence is correctly punctuated. b) Remove the comma after entitled and place the question mark outside the end quotation marks. c) Remove the comma after...

Can you check my homework before I turn it in. 1. Which sentence is punctuated correctly? a) The cost, and size of the computers are decreasing, almost as rapidly as processing power is increasing. b) Database management systems were originally large, unwieldy, and difficult to use. c) A...

1. Which sentence is punctuated correctly? a) The cost, and size of the computers are decreasing, almost as rapidly as processing power is increasing. b) Database management systems were originally large, unwieldy, and difficult to use. c) A factory closing means the community loses jobs tax...

I wouldn't put a comma there, no. The question mark goes outside the quotes. But if you want to delve into a grey area, if the article had been called "Do you want to increase your vocabulary?" then you should probably put - ahem - - Have you read the article entitled "Do you want to increase...

In the following three sentences are they punctuated correctly? Thanks for any help you can give me. 1. After he began the meeting he said " I am not staying." (Should there be a comma after said? Should the period be inside of the quotation mark?) 2. Have you ever read the article...

Have you read the article entitled "Increase Your Vocabulary"? In the previous sentence would you put a comma after entitled? Would you put the question mark inside the quotes or outside like I have it? Oh thank you so very much for your help. I have read so many rules in studing English. I...

In addition to what these folks are saying, it seems to me that one would need to put the question mark outside the quotation marks in the first sentence, since it is not part of the title of the article, and is placed there to make the sentence itself a question.