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

FIVE WAYS TO CORRECT RUN-ON SENTENCES 1. PERIOD AND CAPITAL LETTER 2. COMMA AND FANBOYS CONJUCTION 3. SEMICOLON 4. SEMICOLON AND JOINING WORD 5. DEPENDANT WORD In each sentence underline the spot where each run-on or comma splice

The word "then" is a conjunctive adverb. When it separates independent clauses, it should be preceded with a semicolon (;) and usually followed by a comma (,). With most conjunctive adverbs--such as "however" and

Eleanor Roosevelt was born on October 11, 1884, in New York City. She was the first of six children born by Anna Hall and Elliot Roosevelt . (This sentence implies that Elliot also gave birth. This is very unlikely.) She was the oldest of Anna

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

A coordinating conjunction cannot join two main clauses together with a comma. It needs to have a semicolon preceeding it or a full stop. Sorry, sometimes I write too fast for my own good; the marked out word should be conjunctive adverb.

H.R.357 Family Entertainment and Copyright Act of 2005 (Introduced in House) TITLE II EXEMPTION FROM INFRINGEMENT FOR SKIPPING AUDIO AND VIDEO CONTENT IN MOTION PICTURES SEC. 201. SHORT TITLE. This title may be cited as the `Family Movie Act of

} Are there any clues or fuzzy rules which can help recognizing a word } containing 's', 'z', 'x' and so on? You're talking about reducing the (z) sounds to written English, right? (The (s) sounds probably aren't