Thanks, everyone. According to The American Heritage Guide to Contemporary Usage and Style: With other punctuation Put commas and periods inside closing quotation marks; put colons and semicolons outside. Other punctuation, such as exclamation

Students at McGill University in Montreal the first set of rules? Have to use a period, question mark, explanation point, comma, or semi colon to correct the above sentence to make it proper. I think a semi colon goes after Montreal

. Leave a space after all commas, periods, colons, semicolons, exclamation and question marks. Miss Wang and Miss Zhang were not getting along . One day , Miss Zhang said to Mr Li , ”Please tell Miss Wang that I'm fed up with her. Let

Avangi! You're a wonderful help. Thank you so much. I was under the impression that the punctuation marks - commas, question marks, colons, semicolons, and periods - belonged to the statement within quotation marks, and that titles were

Hi, Mr.Micawber! Thanks for checking the sentences. Please, what kind of mistakes are there in the following sentences (I understood that I had to change semi-colon by periods in the first three sentences), because you said "These need

Hi, Thanks again, very clear to understand! I don't think you understand my last question; I know what a clause is. I am just asking if you can punctuate the sentence as I had broken down the parts of the sentence into their clauses and

Hi, I would really appreciate anyone who could check over these sentences to ensure all the punctuation is correct. This is an assignment for a correspondence course I'm taking, and I think I have them mostly right but I'd like to be sure.

Hi, I would really appreciate anyone who could check over these sentences to ensure all the punctuation is correct. This is an assignment for a correspondence course I'm taking, and I think I have them mostly right but I'd like to be sure.

These punctuation marks (the British call them inverted commas ) come in two forms, double and single. The double quotation marks (opening “ and closing ”) are used to enclose the words of a direct quotation: She said, “I’ll never see you again.”

Hi, stlouisfan, and welcome to the forums. I think, if I were writing your sentence, I'd probably change the colon to a dash and use the question mark. But what I'd really do is put tthe question mark after the word "purpose"