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Victo Posted 13 years ago
Grammar
Punctuation for Dialogue vs Punctuation for Quotations
Per BrE rules...
The examples below are not direct quotations that were uttered from a person's mouth;
hence, I believe the full stops go outside the ending quote marks in every example below. Do you concur?
1. The sign said, "Beware of dog".
2. The email said, "The meeting is on February 7 at 4.30pm. Bring your laptops and be punctual".
3. I love the old proverb "No good deed goes unpunished".
4. I don't like his sentence "Inveterate gambling may cause impotence".
5. The policy states, "Intoxicants detected in an employee's bloodstream is immediate grounds for termination'.
6. "The sign said 'Handle with Care'."
Thanks, folks.
The examples below are not direct quotations that were uttered from a person's mouth;
hence, I believe the full stops go outside the ending quote marks in every example below. Do you concur?
1. The sign said, "Beware of dog".
2. The email said, "The meeting is on February 7 at 4.30pm. Bring your laptops and be punctual".
3. I love the old proverb "No good deed goes unpunished".
4. I don't like his sentence "Inveterate gambling may cause impotence".
5. The policy states, "Intoxicants detected in an employee's bloodstream is immediate grounds for termination'.
6. "The sign said 'Handle with Care'."
Thanks, folks.
Top answer
My own practice would be to assume the presence of a full stop in the original if it looked as though there would naturally be one there, and then place it inside the quotation marks accordingly. I would therefore put the full stop inside the quotation marks on all of these.
- My own practice would be to assume the presence of a full stop in the original if it looked as though there would naturally be one there, and then place it inside the quotation marks accordingly.
- I would therefore put the full stop inside the quotation marks on all of these.
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My own practice would be to assume the presence of a full stop in the original if it looked as though there would naturally be one there, and then place it inside the quotation marks accordingly. I would therefore put the full stop inside the quotation marks on all of these.
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