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Subject:FW: periods inside quotation marks? From:Tracey Moore <traceym -at- APPLIEDMAPPING -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 10 Jun 1998 10:25:40 -0400
I found this interesting because in college I had six points taken off an otherwise perfect grade for a paper for putting the period outside of the quotation mark (on one dang sentence). My reasoning was that the item inside quotations wasn't a sentence in and of itself. Anyway, this argument fell on the deaf ears of my professor. To this day, I always wondered who was right.
I guess it goes back to this: it all depends on the reader.
