Let the sociolinguists worry about why it's expected; it's enough for you to know is that it is expected, and that if you want to get ahead in these fields, you have to master it. Since modern grammar is more concerned with the way words function in a sentence than with part-of-speech designations in a dictionary, it's a little different from the conventional understanding of noun, but it's very close
The success of such a chapter carries with it an assumption that no longer holds true today: One speaker can tell a long story, without interruptions, and his audience will be rapt throughout the telling. Yes, we all still run across the occasional person who can hold a dinner party spellbound with his telling of a story, but there will nonetheless be interruptions, interjections, and asides
But you can't just drop the period in that one context unless you're happy to discard it everywhere else - consistency is more important than which particular usage you adopt. The two marks of punctuation are actually different; the period following "etc" marks an abbreviation, and the period following the closing parenthesis is terminal punctuation
Online Course Lady: Writing Laboratory: The Ten Rules of Quoted Speech
http://writingwithaesop.blogspot.com/2011/01/punctuation-quoted-speech.htmlThis is a rule that does not necessarily apply to other uses of quotation marks in English, but it is a rule you can confidently apply to quoted speech. Here is an example: "I challenge you," the hare said, "to a race!" The quoted statement ("I challenge you to a race!") has been wrapped around the verb of speaking
Abbreviations we pronounce by spelling out the letters may or may not use periods and you will have to use a dictionary to be sure: FBI, NAACP, NCAA, U.S.A., U.N.I.C.E.F., etc. This goes against the grain for people using the typography instilled by generations of old-fashioned typewriter users, but modern word-processors nicely accommodate the spacing after a period, and double-spacing after a period can only serve to discombobulate the good intentions of one's software
How to Use Quotation Marks
Moreover, if the sentence ends with a quoted question or exclamation, as in the last two examples, the question mark or exclamation point is sufficient. Finally, question marks and exclamation points go outside quotation marks only if the entire sentence is a question or exclamation, rather than just the quoted text
Quotation Marks - Grammar Video by Brightstorm
The way I like to remember what works qualify as short, is anytime that they exist inside something else, like; chapters in a book, poems in an anthology, articles in a newspaper, episodes in a TV show. Was this video helpful? Very Helpful Leave a comment Explanation Transcript Tags Quotation marks are a type of punctuation that are either used around direct quotations or used around titles of short works
Question (From an English faculty member): I have trouble with question marks when question are embedded in a longer sentence: Her question, "Would you like a copy of the memo?" took him by surprise. If, on the other hand, you think that your projected readership is likely to be distracted by the morass of punctuation and miss what you're trying to say, you have a different problem
Punctuation Errors: American and British Quotation Marks
but it would still make things clearer to use an example equivalent to the British one.) Betty Riordanon October 03, 2011 2:41 pm I realize the subject matter is about punctuation, but I would like to point out an error in the NY Times article. Because American-style punctuation has gone without causing confusion or errors for about a hundred and fifty years, then it has no real-world disadvantage when compared to to British-style
Quotation Marks Rules: Grammar Guide
When I Googled it, your page was the second one, and looked intriguing, so I've read everything from four years ago to six days ago! No wonder I never get any work done! But you seem to have stopped answering the questions. Like I said, for my essay we have to use a quote from that page, but in the passage, there are already quotes, and those quotes have quotes inside them as well
Logical punctuation: Should we start placing commas outside quotation marks?
Imagine Jane Austen starting a book today with the sentence, "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." Her editor would take both commas out. I scanned four random posts in Metafilter.com (about Sony Playstation's hacking problems, the death of Phoebe Snow, the French police, and cool dads) and counted nine comments with periods and commas outside, seven inside
Punctuation inside or outside quotation (speech) marks?
Did she really ask, "Do you love me?"? (unwieldy but acceptable) (Two question marks? The sentence is a question, and the quotation is a question.) I heard him yell, "Do you love me?". Do you disagree with something on this page? Did you spot a typo? Do you have any tips or examples to improve this page? Please tell us using this form
How to Use Quotation Marks Correctly (with Cheat Sheet)
Running Quotes: If a full paragraph of quoted material is followed by a paragraph that continues the quotation, do not put close-quote marks at the end of the first paragraph. Most of all, she enjoys attending meetups; having been to two meetups thus far, she feels that they're a blast and she has always left with many happy memories! Her proudest accomplishment on wikiHow has been taking a step further in the world, i.e
Today, I was looking at the 165-year-old fieldnotes of Captain Henry Naglee -- small, leather-bound notes, handwritten in faint pencil -- from his mission to "pacify" the Yokut and Miwok people. Thus, if the punctuation is part of the quotation, then it should be within the quotation marks; if the punctuation is not part of the quotation, the writer should not mislead the reader by inferring that it is
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says: June 10, 2015, at 10:26 pm My co-worker and I cannot understand why an ending quotation mark is outside the period when the only quoted portion of the sentence is the last word(s). All materials contained on this site are protected by United States copyright law and may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, displayed, published or broadcast without the prior written permission of the author
SharryI had a similar question about where to put the quotation marks when a comma or period is used, especially if the QMs are around words quoted from another text. I have read a couple of books where quotation marks were not used to show the words of a characters thoughts and then some that have used quotation marks
Do You Underline Book Titles? Italicize? Put inside Quote Marks?
This is one of those pesky questions that comes up all the time: Should I underline or italicize book titles in my writing? And it comes up for good reason: You can look at several different books, newspapers or magazine articles and see it handled several different ways. According to the Chicago Manual of Style and the Modern Language Association, titles of books (and other complete works, such as newspapers and magazines), should be italicized
We always put periods and commas inside quotation marks.In Britain, they use rules that require the writer to determine whether the period or comma belong with the quotation or are part of the larger sentence. Where you place the other marks relative to the quotation mark depends on the context of the quotation.If the whole sentence, including the quotation, is a question or an exclamation, then the question mark or exclamation point goes outside the closing quotation mark; but if only the part inside the quotation marks is a question or exclamation, then the question mark or exclamation point goes inside the closing quotation mark
Do quotation marks go before or after the period or question mark
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When do Commas or Periods Go Inside Quotation Marks and When do They Go Outside?
A question mark can reside outside quotation marks if it is not part of the quote in a sentence that is in the form of a question: Moreover, unless you are quoting something that contains a semi-colon, this too will fall outside quotation marks. This is technically a Latin rule, which we try to borrow, but its meaning is much clearer in the Latin (and consequently in all Romantic languages) -- especially considering English is a Germanic language
I recall it was a pocketsize book that parodied lots of misapplied punctuations, which have altered the meanings in sentences.I do not believe it was meant to be a guide book. If the overall sentence but not the quote itself is a question or exclamation, then the punctuation goes outside.Also, please note that these are American English rules
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Period Goes Inside Quotation Marks
The difference between placing commas and periods inside or outside a closing quotation mark does not seem great; I doubt I even notice it in reading and would have no concern using either form in writing. Peter Perkinson November 20, 2009 3:30 pm It seems to me that common sense dictates: If one is quoting a complete sentence, then the period should go inside the quote
Malcolm X had the courage to ask the younger generation of American blacks, "What did we do, who preceded you?" On the other hand, if a question ends with a quoted statement that is not a question, the question mark will go outside the closing quotation mark. In American style, then, you would write: My favorite poem is Robert Frost's "Design." But in England you would write: My favorite poem is Robert Frost's "Design"
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