Re: comma inside quoted-string-with-question-mark ?

Subject: Re: comma inside quoted-string-with-question-mark ?
From: "William Sherman" <bsherman77 -at- embarqmail -dot- com>
To: <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 22:10:39 -0500

Back when I was learning to write in a dark cave huddled against dinosaurs and sabertooth tigers, my teachers made a point of saying you include the punctuation inside the quotation if it is part of that phrase or sentence and outside if it has nothing to do with the quotation unless they would be the same either way.

For example:

1. He said, "Let's go to the movies."

2. We should look at "Let's go to".

3. Did you hear him say "Let's go to the movies"?

Obviously, if you move the question mark inside on the last one, it changes the meaning completely, as he did not say "Let's go to the movies?" but rather "Let's go to the movies."

In 2, a period after "to" is not correct as it is not a complete sentence.



----- Original Message ----- From: "Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com>
To: "Lauren" <lauren -at- writeco -dot- net>; <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 6:04 PM
Subject: RE: comma inside quoted-string-with-question-mark ?


Lauren wrote:

For people who use the convention of punctuation outside of a closing
quote that may not seem so odd.

That would be Brits. And programmers. :-)

Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
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comma inside quoted-string-with-question-mark ?: From: Monique Semp
Re: comma inside quoted-string-with-question-mark ?: From: Lauren
RE: comma inside quoted-string-with-question-mark ?: From: Combs, Richard

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