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

True, Anonymous! Pluralized acronyms should not use apostrophes. As an experienced English Tutor/Mentor, apostrophes are used in possession of & in contractions (i.e., Jane's cat won't eat fish.) To place an apostrophe after an acronym or

You have been consulting the wrong people. Without further punctuation, B is very wrong. These are your choices (note the colon in B): (A) The English language has a huge vocabulary of over 600,000 words. (B) The English language has a huge

Hello, a friend of mine had to write a letter of apology for his course in Business English. He wrote the following letter of apology. The teacher crossed nearly all of his words out. Is the letter grammatically an absolutely nonsense or

I agree with Wordy. Many, many years ago, a comma was needed in BrE. Nowadays, there is, indeed, a difference between British and American English. In AmE a comma is needed, but in BrE, a comma is no longer required. Other examples are is Mr,

Hi and welcome to English Forums. Usually I greet people by name, but I'm sure you are FAR from stupid, so I'll just give your friendly "Welcome!" instead. In that use, either one is just fine. The first is a complete

I have an MA in English. Do not use a colon after a verb. It should never separate the verb from the object.

Is that correct? I think that a semi colon can precede "e.g." but not follow it. Is the claim about British English true? I do know that in U.S. English, one should usually write "; e.g.," or ", e.g.,". The

. Hello, Eugene-- and welcome to English Forums. Use the n-dash. Your sentence is too casual for a colon. And always capitalize the first person singular pronoun. .