By British English, Quotation marks

"... when you have both finished" sounds awkward, is it a common sentential constuct? Yes, it's a normal construct And your sentence "What were the questions like?" looks good but can I also say "How were the questions like?"? No, but you could say "How were the questions?' or 'How did you...

In British English the punctuation goes within the quotation marks when the quotation is a complete sentence, but when the quotation is only an excerpt of the whole quotation the punctuation goes outside the quotation marks. In American English it is different.

Thanks, Babara. Whether or not it makes sense, the period or comma ALWAYS goes inside the quotation marks. In this case, I prefer British English because which punctuation marks we have to insert is dependent on logic.

I'm sure your intended recipient is delighted to be assisted in such a charming and generous manner. To the point, one shouldn't 'always include commas and periods inside quotation marks'. That only applies to American English. British English, for one, places punctuation outside the quotation...

"I met with an accident" is still used is South Asia (India, Sri Lanka) as an everyday phrase and presumably was used in British English in colonial times. However, it is not used by by anyone under the age of 40 in speech. Do a Google search for "met with an accident" (include the quotation...

I learned the American rules for punctuation: periods and commas always go inside the quotation marks; colons and semi-colons always go outside; and question marks and exclamation points go where they actually make sense. I agree it's not logical, and sometimes I want to rebel and put that period...

1. "Worse" is the comparative of "bad" while "worst" is the superlative. bad-worse-the worst His new movie is worse than his last. Your cooking is getting worse! (compared to before) Among his movies, the newest one is the worst. This is the worst of all! 2. I'm reproducing Taiwandave's post...

I'm too busy to answer this now, but I'll answer it this evening if you can hang on a few hours. There ARE differences between British English and American English. Will talk later. Rommie.