If I use quotation marks in a sentence and a punctuation mark is required next to them, do I place the said punctuation mark, e.g. a question mark, before of after the quotation mark? And I would also like to know whether or not fullstops come

Thanks, Mr Wordy. As you can see I got a tad confused with my questions. It is actually the second question that was baffling me, but as you can see I have pasted a couple of examples that are pertinent to the aforementioned question about

If I use quotation marks in a sentence and a punctuation mark is required next to them, do I place the said punctuation mark, e.g. a question mark, before of after the quotation mark? And I would also like to know whether or not fullstops come

If the punctuation logically belongs to the bracketed part (alone) then put it inside the brackets. Otherwise, put it outside the brackets. I can't think of any situation when a trailing comma would be placed inside a closing bracket.

Hello Definitely not. Forget about what word class ‘which’ belongs to. The important thing is that the second clause in each of your sentences is subordinate, not main; consequently, comma splicing (of run-on sentences) is not an

"I perhaps would have replied you sooner if my busyness was physically tiring not mentally" No, it's not correct. replied to you , not replied you . One could argue that was should be had been . Other than that, it's just a

So my uncertain intuition is valid. Now I feel better! For a minute, I thought "women having the vote" was another way of saying "women receiving the votes from the voters share...". On a side note, there have been quite

A hyphen is not the correct punctuation mark; it should be a dash, which is longer. I strongly prefer a set of commas here, though. The company name does not cause a notable interruption of sentence flow and can easily be given as an appositive

I am interested in finding out if this is ok. "Twenty people are affected, most living nearby." Yes, this seems OK. I'm wondering if the reducible ones are simply those where the full form of the second clause has

In each example, ‘which’ is a function word being used to introduce a nonrestrictive relative clause, and to modify a noun, (‘point’ and ‘time’) in that clause - so ‘which’ is an adjective not a pronoun . Together with that noun it is referring to