American printing convention places the period and the comma always within the quotation marks and colons and semicolons always outside of them.

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

Hi all. I have read the use of quotation marks in American English. I just want to confirm whether the rules are still valid if one quotation mark is followed by another, for example: We must track the status as a Configuration Item changes from

Well, I can finally put this one to bed: In The Grammar Bible, which I love as a reference, it states that "the comma and the period go inside the closing quotation marks at all times. There are no exceptions to this rule" (Strumpf and

I'm editing my book and noticed I was interchanging single quotation marks and regular quotation marks and not really sure how to make it correct. It sounds like the Brits use the 'single' ones and the Americans use the

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.

Hi Is this where American English differs from British English? The project would have been taken over by the "unwised." The project would have been taken over by the "unwised". The period comes before the

"American grammer". Why not put two full stops. "American grammer.". or Mix it up with a question mark and a full stop. "American grammer?". Yoong Liat wrote: AmE places the quotation marks outside. I think the

Why is the following sentence incorrect then? Why do you think it's incorrect? I think most people would prefer the second quotation mark after the comma (nowhere,'), that's all. With regard to your original sentence, truck is more