Close Quotes Before Or After Period

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Close quotes before or after period. The convention goes back at least to the nineteenth. When a comma or period is needed after a quotation publishers in the united states typically put the punctuation mark before the closing quotation mark. If the period appeared in the original quote. Block quotes are long quotes that are separated from the surrounding text.

The rule is the same for a list of titles. Thus in the following sentence the comma is placed after taught. Commas and periods go before the ending quotation marks be they a part of the quote or not. However british publishers gave it up when typesetting mechanics changed while americans stubbornly stick to the now illogical rules.

1 he said no. Vertical enumerated lists next. According to the chicago manual of style and i believe the associated press i work primarily with book publishers who tend to use the former as their base style guide in addition to their house rules in u s. Commas or periods always precede closing quotation marks of quoted material two examples.

In america this topic is not subject to debate. See the examples in strunk white p. The placement of a comma or period after a quotation by eric wirth. Not only do you have to follow different rules depending on what other punctuation marks you mix with your quotation marks but people in different countries also follow different rules so you may see quotation marks handled differently in high quality.

The quote ends with a period if it is not a part of a larger sentence. You ve got to be carefully taught wrote oscar hammerstein ii. The mla handbook notes by convention commas and periods that directly follow quotations go inside the closing quotation marks 88. The quotation that is a part of a larger sentence determines the punctuation at its end if the sentence continues after the quote.

In american u s style periods always come before closing quotation marks. Quotations can bring your writing to life the reader imagines someone saying the words but quotations are also vexing to format. Julio cortázar wrote many short stories including la noche boca arriba. Publications periods and most ot.

He said i liked the movie very much in british style it depends. Usually they appear as a separate paragraph or series of paragraphs with a different font a change in the line spacing or a wider margin. 1 there are no ifs ands or buts about it 2 he said yes and she said no colons and semicolons always follow closing quotation marks of quoted material two examples. Period with parentheses or brackets.

In any case block quotes don t need quotation marks to set them off from the remaining text even though they are direct quotes.