Do Quotes Go Before Or After A Period

The convention goes back at least to the nineteenth.

Do quotes go before or after a period. Vertical enumerated lists next. The placement of a comma or period after a quotation by eric wirth. 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. In a town outside brisbane i saw tourists go home written on a wall.

And you should note that commas and periods go before closing quotation marks regardless of whether they are single or double quotes. The practice of putting the period after the quote mark is a result of computer programming experience in my opinion. In american style the period always comes before the closing quotation marks. Wondering whether to put a period inside or outside quotes.

In all other situations the period comes inside the closing quotation marks. The correct choice is almost always inside. Does punctuation go inside quotation marks. When setting up type requiring the period to precede the quotation marks allowed better kerning.

And some said neither yes nor no 2 some people call themselves democrats. After the quotation marks because if put before the quotation mark that makes the quote seem like if it continues after what you wrote even if the quote has ended. Period marks go before the. In america this topic is not subject to debate.

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. Well if oranges is the title of a book or something the second is correct. The answer is both yes and no. The american style was developed based on typography.

Period marks go before the. But then someone told me pay it no mind lad note that the period goes inside both the single and double quotation marks. See the examples in strunk white p. Period with parentheses or brackets.

He said i. Commas or periods always precede closing quotation marks of quoted material two examples. If you re just saying you haven t heard of the fruit you could leave out the quotes. A period is a delimiter for the whole sentence and the quote mark is a delimiter for the quoted text and a programmer will instinctively put an inner delimiter before an outer delimiter.

1 he said no. In the british style the placement of the period depends upon whether the period is logically part of the quoted material.