Quotes Before Or After A Period

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Quotes before or after a period. The convention goes back at least to the nineteenth. Block quotes are long quotes that are separated from the surrounding text. Quotations can bring your writing to life the reader imagines someone saying the words but quotations are also vexing to format. But then someone told me pay it no mind lad note that the period goes inside both the single and double quotation marks.

Period with parentheses or brackets. The american style was developed based on typography. 1 he said no. Vertical enumerated lists next.

Further to the other answers if a sentence is a question and that sentence includes a quoted question put one question mark inside the quotation marks. Commas or periods always precede closing quotation marks of quoted material two examples. 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. Don t use two question marks.

In american style the period always comes before the closing quotation marks. Use single quotation marks for quotations within quotations. And some said neither yes nor no 2 some people call themselves democrats. The placement of a comma or period after a quotation by eric wirth.

Did he just ask how are you wrong. The reason for this convention is to improve the appearance of the text. A m etc vol inc jr mrs tex and to omit periods with most uppercase abbreviations examples. In all other situations the period comes inside the closing quotation marks.

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

Note however that many scientific and technical abbreviations are. 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. The current style is to use periods with most lowercase and mixed case abbreviations examples. Fbi irs atm nato nbc tx.

In addition to ending a sentence the period is used with certain abbreviations. In america this topic is not subject to debate. In a town outside brisbane i saw tourists go home written on a wall. 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.