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

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.

The book Eleanor Roosevelt: A Personal and Public Life by William Youngs has many strengths and weaknesses. The strengths (can you give names to these strengths?) made the book clearer, easy to understand, and a delight to read. However, the

It's a style choice: there's no "correct" and "incorrect" (except insofar as regional conventions may dictate). It's often said that putting the period (or comma) inside the quote mark is the "American"

Please correct my essay for grammar and punctuation. Smoking in public Seeing people smoke is disgusting. It is common to drive by any place of business and see the employees enjoying a cigarette. To non-smokers this is a slight victory after

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1. Grammatically speaking a comma is required after an adverb. But, some styles (esp. American) considers this comma optional. 2. It is always a good practice to give some time for breathing while shooting out a long sentence/dialogue. Both the

I'd agree that it's not logical. It's in accord with American punctuation style, which makes no attempt to be logical with respect to punctuation with quotation marks. I should have said that American punctuation style makes only a

Please state your definition of "standard". What I'm saying is that UK editors will as a matter of course end with a comma before the quotation ... be assumed part of the textus noninterruptus . But I'm not sure what it is