You cannot italicize and you cannot underline? Then and only then, go ahead and use the quotation marks. Don't use the colon.

American printing convention places the period and the comma always within the quotation marks and colons and semicolons always outside of them.

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

Jingtian, The New York Times style book says: periods and commas, in American usage, always go inside the closing quotation marks, regardless of grammatical logic. Another source gives this example: ...two complete thoughts joined by

In this sentence, what punctuation should i use? I would like to use the same sentence structure, with "should" as the first word of the sentence. I would like to use the same sentence structure: with "should" as the first

Leave a space after colons, commas and periods but not before. Don't leave a space after opening quotation marks.

Hi, When joining two complete sentences, does a comma come after a coordinating conjunction (for, and nor, but, or, yet, so)? Generally speaking, no. But it may optionally come before one. Also should the title of short stores be

When joining two complete sentences, does a comma come after a coordinating conjunction (for, and nor, but, or, yet, so)? Also should the title of short stores be italicized or underlined when the title of a book should be enclosed in quotation

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, 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.