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

Opinions are common. Everyone has one. However, regardless of what you think seems worse or better, you need to follow the style expected by the audience you are writing for.

Well if you're still writing, as you imply, it might be a good idea to check with the publishers now.  They may correct it for you.  It's common in Europe, from my limited experience to use the first style, but  I have never seen an

Quotation marks. When quotations or parenthetical remarks are a part of a larger sentence, logical style manuals tell us to put any punctuation inside if it goes with the material inside and outside if it punctuates the entire sentence. Some

The safer choice is double quotation marks; some publishers use single ones. The style guides vary somewhat. Check with your publisher on all matters of punctuation, italics, citations, etc.

It's a style choice: neither is "right" or "wrong". It's often said that putting the period inside the quotes is the American style and putting it outside is the British style.

Anon, the question of whether the comma goes inside the quotation marks or outside is a matter of style. Illogical though it is, in the US, the comma always goes inside the quote. In the UK, it would go outside.  The Venn diagram has three

If they're marketed under different names then "brands" is fine. Otherwise, I suppose I'd just call them "styles", "types", "varieties" or (informal) " flavours " . Actually, in

Hi all! (I think this is where this goes!) I'm doing a term paper on Nietzschean and Aristotelian concepts of nature. The paper is more specifically centered around the Greek word 'physis' which both use for differetn reasons. My