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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Punctuation marks and parantheses

Do punctuation marks go outside or inside parantheses at the end of a sentence?

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If you have an entire sentence within the parentheses, then put the closing punctuation mark inside. Otherwise, close your full sentence with your punctuation mark outside of the parentheses. I left the party at 8:30 (not that anyone noticed).

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  • If you have an entire sentence within the parentheses, then put the closing punctuation mark inside.
  • Otherwise, close your full sentence with your punctuation mark outside of the parentheses.
  • I left the party at 8:30 (not that anyone noticed).
  • The fight, I'm told, took place around 9:30, but I missed the whole thing.
  • )
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If you have an entire sentence within the parentheses, then put the closing punctuation mark inside.

Otherwise, close your full sentence with your punctuation mark outside of the parentheses.

I left the party at 8:30 (not that anyone noticed).
The fight, I'm told, took place around 9:30, but I missed the whole thing. (I'd gone home at 8:30.)
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