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

The King James Bible translation of the second commandment reads: A. Exo 20:4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the

Generally, no. However, I'm not sure about American usage; I believe they are a bit more liberal in capitals following a colon. The exceptions are when the word itself requires a capital --- a proper noun, for example --- or when the colon

1-- An odd usage; the order is reversed, with the explanatory clause preceding the initial idea. Not according to rule, but effective, I suppose, if used sparingly. 2-- This is more usual: an explanatory clause following a statement. 3-- The

hello, everyone. I wonder how these colons are used in the following examples. I am totally confused. Could you be so kind to give me some explainations? Thanks in advance. 1.These had settled down for the winter at Chippenham : thither

Hi, Welcome to the Forum. I'm struggling with the proper usage of the semicolon. Below are a couple variations of a thought. Which is correct? 1) 2pm is perfect! I’ll fly in Friday morning for the meeting; So 2pm will give me plenty of time

But I understand it's still true there's enough food to ... reasons, it's not practicable to get the food to everyone. ObAUE: That, to my mind, is a terrible abuse of a colon. The second part of the sentence is in ... to a

But I understand it's still true there's enough food to feed everyone: for a number of reasons, it's not practicable to get the food to everyone. ObAUE: That, to my mind, is a terrible abuse of a colon. The second part of the sentence

To tell you the truth, the format in Latvian schools ... 22.5 8 10 8 20 20 0 With a division sign as we know it? My understanding is that most European languages use a colon (:) for ... as a variant of the minus sign, and until recently it was