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

But I do wonder if this follows the idea that a semicolon can take the place of a comma if a comma has already been used in the sentence. I'm not familiar with this rule. It seems to me much too mechanical to be a useful way to think about

Vermin Seranar (1) Vermin Seranar was born in İstanbul in 1983. Her music education started as Associate Professor Ahmet Ermakastar’s clarinet student at the State Conservatory, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University. She kept

. Neither is correct, actually, since both need a semicolon instead of a comma. After that correction, #1 is grammatically correct, while #2 would be OK for e-English: it is a sort of telegraph style. .

empressed ..I assume this is merely a typo, unless this a foreign spelling form for me? If the phrases were awkward, the rhythm repetitive, the style inconsistent, the material boring; it would have caught my attention, trust me Your use of the

Hi, I have 9 questions this time. Brace for impact. QUESTION 1: I have a question concerning the linking of 2 complete sentences with a comma. I know that it is correct to do this; however, consider that the 1st complete sentence actually consists

Rozarria: There are 3 situations where semicolons are used: 1) Use a semicolon to join 2 independent clauses when the second clause restates the first or when the two clauses are of equal emphasis. This seems to be the rule that applies in your

Make it "but should conduct". You can't elide a repeated auxiliary verb in that construction. Hmm. If so, then the word "it" should also be there, innit? If you like, but the repeated subject *can* be elided, and I think it

Charles Riggs filted: In twenty words or less, why on earth would you? See below. The bigger problem is that dashes are, like, not cool. ... debated sentence. I believe my man Jim Joyce would also. You people seem to be talking about replacing the