THE Newbie Sampler Thread V

[ashauler]

Grammatically speaking, periods and commas generally go before the closing quote mark.


http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/quotes.asp

You think he was quoting someone? Do you think maybe he was using the quotation marks in place of italicizing the text. Is this acceptable?

[JiveTurkey]

You think he was quoting someone? Do you think maybe he was using the quotation marks in place of italicizing the text. Is this acceptable?

Knew it wasn't a quote. I've used quote marks in this way, too, but have always thought the rule about putting punctuation within quotes still applied (even if I've broken it), but perhaps I'm off.

[ashauler]

Knew it wasn't a quote. I've used quote marks in this way, too, but have always thought the rule about putting punctuation within quotes still applied (even if I've broken it), but perhaps I'm off.

I didn't see any examples, following your link, that would have clarified it for me.

It's probably because I see repeated spelling errors just a tad differently than a punctuation error.