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Goronsky Posted 11 years ago
Grammar
Full stop inside or outside in BrE?
"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."
(If the whole sentence is a quote - and there is no speech tag to introduce the quote - the full stop goes inside as shown above, right?)
Churchill said: "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few".
(But if the sentence starts with a speech tag, does the full stop belong to the quote and go inside, or does it belong to the entire sentence and go outside [as shown above]?)
(If the whole sentence is a quote - and there is no speech tag to introduce the quote - the full stop goes inside as shown above, right?)
Churchill said: "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few".
(But if the sentence starts with a speech tag, does the full stop belong to the quote and go inside, or does it belong to the entire sentence and go outside [as shown above]?)
Top answer
I would place the full stop inside the quotation marks in both cases
- I would place the full stop inside the quotation marks in both cases
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I would place the full stop inside the quotation marks in both cases
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