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

The accepted method is: "Is that you , Susan?" he asked the maid downstairs . There are two 'rules' involved here. (1) The punctuation within the quoation marks belongs to the quote or utterance and is not a punctuation of the overall sentence.

If the letter after a question mark must be capitalized, shouldn't the correct version of this be: "Is that you Susan?" He asked the maid downstairs. If not, what's the grammar rule here?

Hi, I'm having a bit of trouble with the following sentence, any help would be appreciated. Did Michael bring the lunch or do we need to get the shopping Is it correct to use a question mark for both questions within the sentence? Thanks

Could you please tell me if this sentence has the correct punctuation marks in the correct order, and if it makes sense? "Is that you Susan?," he asked the maid downstairs.-- It makes sense, but the comma should be deleted; punctuation marks

Could you please tell me if this sentence has the correct punctuation marks in the correct order, and if it makes sense? "Is that you Susan?," he asked the maid downstairs. Or should the comma come before the question mark and hence

I know "I don't think he is serious, do I?" is absurd. I don't think that wording is absurd. You only need the proper context. Some types of tag questions simply have much more specialized usage (and therefore are also less

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