Does a Full Stop Go After Speech Marks?
Quotation Marks: .. . in American English, the Punctuation Mark (I. E. , the Full Stop or Comma) Always Comes Before the Closing Quotation Mark. Conversely, in...
Quotation marks: ... In American English, the punctuation mark (i.e., the full stop or comma) always comes before the closing quotation mark. Conversely, in Australian English, the punctuation mark will usually come after the closing quotation mark, unless the quotation is also a complete sentence.
Do full stops go inside speech marks UK?
In British and Australian English, it all comes down to the carrier sentence (i.e., the sentence that contains the quotation). ... If the quoted material would have contained the punctuation mark in the absence of any interruption, the punctuation mark stays inside the closing quotation mark.
Do you put a full stop before or after speech marks?
The full stop should be placed before the closing quotation mark when the sentence quoted is a full grammatical sentence, i.e a sentence that can stand on its own and is complete.
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