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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

When ending a sentence with quotes...

0Where do you put the puncuation? I'm talking about for a single world that you want to stick out (e.g., They ate "pizza")?02br
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00Or, say that I also wanted to place an excamation mark inside pizza -- would that be the only puncuation needed, or would you also place a period after the quotes?02br
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00If someone could clear this up it would be much appreciated!0-
  

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02b 02font 02br 02br 00Punctuation outside the quote marks. 02br 02br 00What exactly do you mean "exclamation mark inside pizza"? 0-

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0 01font01b00They ate "pizza"!02b02font02br
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00Punctuation outside the quote marks. 02br
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00What exactly do you mean "exclamation mark inside pizza"? 0-
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01cite10Anonymous12cite10Where do you put the puncuation?12blockquote
10Hi,02br
00I put it where I feel like putting it. Maybe you are interested in sentences like 01i00They ate a "monstruous pizza"...02br
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00I personally prefer to write02br
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0This use of quotes does not help emphasize the word. Instead, it sounds like "they ate something that they called pizza, but it wasn't really." Like when a child is making pretend food out of Play-Dough and you take some "cake."0-
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01cite10Grammar Geek12cite10This use of quotes does not help emphasize the word. Instead, it sounds like "they ate something that they called pizza, but it wasn't really." Like when a child is making pretend food out of Play-Dough and you take some "cake."12blockquote
10Yep exactly, or to help us focus on some words,

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