Re: "xxx." or "xxx".

Subject: Re: "xxx." or "xxx".
From: quiroz <quiroz1 -at- HOTCOCO -dot- INFI -dot- NET>
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 12:34:41 -0700

1a and 2a are the correct answers.

-Edie Quiroz



DIGEST Barbara Diorio wrote:
>
> Five technical writers, one office, two opinions. When a sentence ends with
> a word in quotation marks, do you put the punctuation (period or comma - we
> agree on the other punctuation marks) inside the quotation marks or outside
> the quotation marks? The various guides that we checked all indicated that
> 1a and 2a (below) are correct, but some of the writers swear that they were
> taught to follow 1b and 2b. What do you think?
>
> 1a. "Tell me what you think," said Barb.
> 1b. "Tell me what you think", said Barb.
>
> 2a. Each fix is moved to the restricted area by a "gatekeeper."
> 2b. Each fix is moved to the restricted area by a "gatekeeper".
>
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