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

I am of the firm opinion that the period and commas should be placed outside the quotation marks. I definitely agree.

I am the wrong person to answer this, because I am of the firm opinion that the period and commas should be placed outside the quotation marks.

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

First of all --> There should not be any quotation marks around the title of a play, book, newspaper, work of art, etc. Remove the quotation marks and put Oklahoma! into italics . http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/italics.htm Now, with

I'm 49 and the more I read the rules for punctuation, the less they make sense. No wonder people say English is the hardest language to learn. So what is the reason for putting a comma inside a quotation mark? Thanks.

1) No, it is usually not necessary unless it is some special word or specific, word-by-word copied phrase. By putting quotes around these words you are stating very clearly that these are not your words; you only copied them; don't blame the

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

In the United States, the period is always inside the quotation marks: "...Best Management Practices." Agreed. Put the period inside the quote.