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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Essay & Composition Writing
Punctuation within quotes within parentheses
Hi, all.
I have just posted a blog (URL removed by mod) and there's a punctuation question that's nagging me. Obviously, since this is a blog, the tone is informal and I'm using parentheses to keep the tone conversational.
Here's the question: If you are quoting someone and the quotes are parenthetical, do you puntuate the end of each sentence within the parentheses even if it's not the end of the sentence?
Here's the text, for reference. My eyes aren't happy either way.
In 2009 at SxSW I heard Quincy Jones deliver the kind of nostalgic 90-minute stream-of-consciousness keynote speech that can only be pulled off by someone who produced Thriller and counted Frank Sinatra as a dear friend ("Q, live every day like it's your last and one day you'll be right."). Amid the stories, the friends ("Now Steve Ross, he was the kind of guy who could see around the corner."), and the inspirational quotes ("We are instruments of a higher power. Music comes through us, it's not about us."), he also dropped a small amount of advice ("Hey, and when it rains? Get wet.").
Many thanks for your advice!
I have just posted a blog (URL removed by mod) and there's a punctuation question that's nagging me. Obviously, since this is a blog, the tone is informal and I'm using parentheses to keep the tone conversational.
Here's the question: If you are quoting someone and the quotes are parenthetical, do you puntuate the end of each sentence within the parentheses even if it's not the end of the sentence?
Here's the text, for reference. My eyes aren't happy either way.
In 2009 at SxSW I heard Quincy Jones deliver the kind of nostalgic 90-minute stream-of-consciousness keynote speech that can only be pulled off by someone who produced Thriller and counted Frank Sinatra as a dear friend ("Q, live every day like it's your last and one day you'll be right."). Amid the stories, the friends ("Now Steve Ross, he was the kind of guy who could see around the corner."), and the inspirational quotes ("We are instruments of a higher power. Music comes through us, it's not about us."), he also dropped a small amount of advice ("Hey, and when it rains? Get wet.").
Many thanks for your advice!
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"), and the inspirational quotes ("We are instruments of a higher power. "), he also dropped a small amount of advice ("Hey, and when it rains? ").
- "), and the inspirational quotes ("We are instruments of a higher power.
- "), he also dropped a small amount of advice ("Hey, and when it rains?
- ").
- ***, help me.
- Along with the anecdotes, the references to friends - "Now Steve Ross, he was the kind of guy who could see around the corner" - and the inspirational quotes: "We are instruments of a higher power.
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In 2009, (insert comma) at SxSW, (insert comma) I heard Quincy Jones deliver the kind of nostalgic 90 (no hyphen) minute stream-of-consciousness keynote speech that can only be pulled off by someone who produced Thriller and counted Frank Sinatra as a dear friend - "Q, live every day like it's your last and one day you'll be right."
Amid the stories, the friends ("Now
Amid the stories, the friends ("Now
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