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Subject:Re: periods inside quotation marks? From:Andrea Ridgley <ridgley -at- OMTOOL -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 10 Jun 1998 11:55:49 -0400
According to my Merriam Webster's Guide to Punctuation and Style book,
"a period is placed within quotation marks even when it does not
punctuate the quoted material." However, the guide continues with "the
dash, question mark, and exclamation point are placed inside quotation
marks when they punctuate the quoted matter only. They are placed
outside the quotation marks when they punctuate the whole sentence."
Hope this helps.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Tracey Moore [SMTP:traceym -at- APPLIEDMAPPING -dot- COM]
>Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 1998 10:26 AM
>To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
>Subject: FW: periods inside quotation marks?
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>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.
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