By Punctuation, Quoting

I find these rules at http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/quotes.asp very helpful. Rule 1 ...

In dialogue, punctuation goes inside the quotation marks: "I know," he replied, "but I got lost."Quoting titles - either underline, or italicize, or put into quotation marks.You need to go through and check - there are many missing quotation marks and some missing apostrophes. Why do you put...

For american English, a period ending a sentence should always go inside the quotation marks. A question mark ending a sentence goes inside the quotation marks if you are quoting a question, outside if you are asking a question, inside if both. You should never have punctuation both inside and...

Believer wrote: Hi, Let us pretend that I am quoting what someone has said a few minutes ago. "Look at your situation -- and be utterly amazed as to how everything is changed over the past two years -- and pray that not all changes you might have will not be all that detrimental." Now,...

Hi, Let us pretend that I am quoting what someone has said a few minutes ago. "Look at your situation -- and be utterly amazed as to how everything is changed over the past two years -- and pray that not all changes you might have will not be all that detrimental." Now, setting aside the...

Believer wrote:Thank you, Feebs11 and Yoong Liat. Let me clarify what I am trying ot ask: When you have kind of a long sentence that contains a clause or sentence in quotes although a person is not quoting anything perse, do that clause or sentence in quotation marks need to have a period. My...

G'day Believer, When quoting a sentence you should quote the sentence. When you quote part sentences the rest of the punctuation is included so for consistency the final punctuation point should be included. Stannum

Believer wrote:Hi, If you have a clause or a sentence in the quotation marks in a sentence, do you have to place a period? More often, I see them not. eg, Please don't say "You need to go (a period??)" but say "You have to go." If you are quoting something, the punctuation goes outside the...

I'm quoting from Times Chambers 'Punctuation Guide'. There is an American preference for placing a comma in lists to precede the conjunction at the end of a list of three or more items. Whereas British practice favours x, y and z, the American preference is for x, y, and z.

Jackson6612 wrote: ''fe'', : Is this change correct? ''s''. : Full stop belongs to entire sentence not just to ''s'', therefore full stop shouldn't be included in inverted commas because these inverted commas explicitly belong to s. Hi, Have a look at what Barbara (Grammar Geek) wrote...