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Tamguatlay Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

Period should be inside quotation marks

The sentence is "You are clever."

Where I. live, the BrE teachers think the period is inside the quotation marks. Are they Correct?

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I think you can analyse it both ways. On the basis that the full stop belongs to the quoted sentence, it may go within. An additional convention that this stop can also serve as the stop for the containing sentence is required.

— GPY

  • I think you can analyse it both ways.
  • On the basis that the full stop belongs to the quoted sentence, it may go within.
  • An additional convention that this stop can also serve as the stop for the containing sentence is required.
  • g.
  • we may write "You are clever" is the sentence.
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I think you can analyse it both ways. On the basis that the full stop belongs to the quoted sentence, it may go within. An additional convention that this stop can also serve as the stop for the containing sentence is required. On the basis that full stops can be dropped from quoted sentences (e.g. we may write "You are clever" is the sentence. rather than "You are clever." is the senten
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Thanks, GPY.

So in the original sentence, the period can be outside the quotation marks. Am I right?
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tamguatlaySo in the original sentence, the period can be outside the quotation marks. Am I right?
In my opinion it can be. However, styles vary.
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