Should the period be placed inside or outside quotation marks?
By alexandrie
@alexandrie (37)
Philippines
March 10, 2007 12:22pm CST
A question on punctuation...
Where should I snuck my period? Inside or outside quotation marks? I've been told the British and American ruling on this varies.
2 responses
@ironstruck (2298)
• Canada
10 Mar 07
It should go on the inside because the period is actually a part of the sentence. It is the end of the quote and the sentence, so the quotation mark goes after.
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@Jennifer21 (2476)
• United States
10 Mar 07
Yes, ironstruct is right, the period goes inside the quotation marks.
@abeldanielt (37)
• India
15 Mar 07
Well!!! the ruling may varie but this is limited only to the books. The proper and universily excepted way of english is the american... so the period has to be out of the punctuation..logically punctuation mark satisfies the condition when you have to punctuate your sentence and a period satisfies the condition when you have to end the dialect.
