Double Quotes Before Or After The Period

However question marks if the question comes at the end of the sentence are put following the clause with the quotation.

Double quotes before or after the period. Difficulty generally arises only when the period is used with other punctuation marks. British publishers tend to put the comma or period after the quotation mark. When the quote includes the question mark after. But robert bringhurst writing in the era of digital fonts maintains that it generally makes no typographic difference if quotation marks follow commas and periods or precede.

The period is perhaps the easiest punctuation mark to master. I like the complete phrase quoted before the question mark. It ends a sentence. When the quotes ends first before.

With no exceptions periods and commas go inside the quotation marks. When being considered for a job or for a promotion or for just keeping your present job knowing and using correct grammar verbal and written can make the difference. Therefore printers starting putting the full stop before the final quotation mark to stop it falling off or breaking. When the single quotation mark and double quotation mark fall next to each other as in the above example you can improve readability by putting a space between the two marks.

This practice was in place well before 1600 when the first english colonists set out for the american continent. Ok i am not so sure are you the one who said give me liberty or give me death. Consider the following sentences. But the british usually use the narrower single quotation mark as the primary quotation mark.

Unemployment is at a high rate and the trend seems to be downsizing the workforce using technology more than people. Is the period used correctly after the clo. He s the one who said am i my brother s keeper. In other words in the predigital era when fonts were fixed width setting a period or comma outside the quotation marks would have created an unsightly gap.

Long ago fuego started with an h instead of f.