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Where Do You Put Quotation Marks Relative to Other Punctuation?

Where Do You Put Quotation Marks Relative to Other Punctuation?

Update: 2021-03-01
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In American English, a period or comma always comes before a closing quotation mark, like "this." That's true regardless of what the quotation marks contain — quoted speech, a noted word, a movie title. But not all punctuation marks have the same relationship with quotation marks. Here's the full story.


The post Where Do You Put Quotation Marks Relative to Other Punctuation? first appeared on Grammar Underground with June Casagrande.

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Where Do You Put Quotation Marks Relative to Other Punctuation?

Where Do You Put Quotation Marks Relative to Other Punctuation?

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