Comments on: Period Goes Inside Quotation Marks

By: Effector Dhanushanth

Effector Dhanushanth — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 11:33:45 +0000

its simple dear readers. if its just a word, it comes inside (the quotes).
exempli gratia: the fox jumped the “wall”.

if its the whole sentence it comes outside (the quotes).
exempli gratia: “the fox jumped the wall.”

I found it confusing as well for a minute, a while ago, before i hit big brother. Well i had practiced the abovementioned method all my luife not knowing if it was correct at all. But it makes sense to me. I know for certain that it IS in fact correct. beat that!

for those who call me “jerk”, exempli gratia=e.g. (duh)
and
for some extra explanation, notice the “quotes” above?
i mean not the actual punctuation, but the 2 words in brackets, in the successive examples. well if u observe well, they appear within the period yea? treat the quotation in the same way.. adios!

By: Destin

Destin — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 04:17:33 +0000

People!!! Stop over thinking such an elementary answer. It’s a grammar rule without some underlying, hidden, and/or mythological answer encapsulated in between (pun intended). Some countries have their own definition and rules for grammar and/or language variations (thinking more “outside the box”? – Pun Intended Again). My “proverbial depiction!” Let loose…Mellow out to the rhythmic sounds of nature’s grammatic “RULES!”

By: Yuyo

Yuyo — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 17:55:56 +0000

Which one is correct using the comma?

Example:
“Bla blah …” he said.
or
“Bla blah …”, he said.
or
“Bla blah …,” he said

By: Karla

Karla — Thu, 27 May 2010 12:48:11 +0000

George: Nope. First of all, I never say Enter in my procedures. (ENTER is a key on the keyboard.) And I don’t use quotes for user interaction. I use bold text. So I would write,
1. In the Username box, provide your login ID.
Or,
1. At the command prompt, type:
xyz.etc
In this case, I put the user input on a separate line with no punctuation and in Courier New font.

That’s the wonder of word processors–we’re no longer at the mercy of punctuation to make text stand apart.

By: George Craig

George Craig — Thu, 27 May 2010 05:00:49 +0000

Alek,
When you want the period included how about using “Enter login ID.”? When you do not want the period included, use “Enter login ID”.

Dave,
You have simplified the matter by eliminating the confusion. Or, perhaps you have eliminated the confusion by simplifying the matter.