By American English, Quoting

For american English, a period ending a sentence should always go inside the quotation marks. A question mark ending a sentence goes inside the quotation marks if you are quoting a question, outside if you are asking a question, inside if both. You should never have punctuation both inside and...

EDIT: the quoting feature doesn't seem to be working right now. I used "----" to represent quotes. -------------------------------------- I wish to know "Why 'have' is used after I instead of 'has'. ------------------------------------------ The verb to "have" comes from the Old English verb...

Mike In Japan wrote:Hi Elida, welcome to the forums.Well, we were talking about irregular English usage, and Anonymous had made a post with a couple of irregularities in spelling; hough for though, and peole for people, which I used as an example.Marvin then joked about the way I should spell...

I was wondering if and how quotes should be edited when, for example, my essay is in British English, but my quotation is in American English. Also, in this century old text Phoenicia is written with a special kind of 'oe' (they're linked together). Should I alter this word into modern...

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...