Both marks are raised above the baseline. He also contributed to the revisions of the last two editions of Kate L. Order the book Subscribe online. Please see our commenting policy. Why are commas and periods exempt from this logic?
Chicago v. Oxford If you examine works published in English before , you will find a near-universal placement of commas and periods before a closing quotation mark, whether single or double. Or was it? So did semicolons, but not colons the numbers refer to sections in the Manual : But why? Punctuating at the Baseline Whereas colons and semicolons rise to the level of lowercase letters question marks and exclamation points are even taller , commas and periods hug the baseline.
Which style do you prefer? Fortunately, neither one is the very last word on the matter. Take these two sentences, for example: This is a test, so pay attention. No one does, apparently. For example:. In technical writing or even in daily life, you may find situations where someone needs to input a specific word or phrase into a computer.
If you include the punctuation in the quoted section, this may cause the user to input the punctuation as well as the actual word or phrase. In this case, put the punctuation outside the quotes, as in these examples:. In American English, the general rule for question marks and exclamation marks or points is this: If the quoted material ends with a question mark or an exclamation mark, the punctuation should be inside the quotation marks.
However, if the question mark or exclamation mark is not directly part of the quote, then the punctuation should go outside the quotation marks. As you can see here, if the quote itself is an exclamation or question, the punctuation mark is contained within the quotation marks:. If the quoted words are embedded within a sentence that is an exclamation or question, then the punctuation goes outside the quotation marks, like this:.
There are certain punctuation marks that always go outside quotation marks. Here, both American and British English follow the same rule. Punctuation marks that go outside are:. The following are rules for punctuating inside closing quotation marks according to the standard American style guides :.
ENTER is a key on the keyboard. 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.
Stop over thinking such an elementary answer. 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. I am not placing a period inside the quotes for a single word or phrase ending a non-quoted sentence. It looks stupid. The period which ends the sentence is not part of the quoted material.
I write installation documents, and quite often I tell the user what will display on their screen or what to input. For clarity, I leave the punctuation at the end. I see that this thread is over three years old but apparently still alive. My understanding about the rule is that it is purely historical. Back in the days of printing presses and other devices that used raised metal, the period and the comma keys were the most fragile and prone to breakage.
It was dicey to use the construct quote-period-space or quote-comma-space. To protect the keys, commas and periods were thus placed inside the quotes. Other punctuation marks such as question mark, exclamation point and semicolon are not as prone to damage, so they were not placed inside the quotes. This practice has continued in the United States, but elsewhere logic prevails. I have always had trouble with that practice, since I was a math major and a computer programmer and the practice seemed illogical to me.
That rule only applies in dialogue The period goes outside the quotes in such sentences like this. Answers and Explanations 1. Stop making those embarrassing mistakes! Subscribe to Daily Writing Tips today!
You will improve your English in only 5 minutes per day, guaranteed! You'll also get three bonus ebooks completely free! I think the hash marks are not to be confused with an end-quote mark. Can someone help me out here?
Hang on! You are right: quotation marks are irrelevant. I am unclear on whether you always use brackets for ellipses that the author quoting the material has inserted. For example, in this quote, the quoting author has inserted ellipses. Would every instance of ellipses therefore be bracketed? It depends. It gets tricky if the same document quotes from an original that has an ellipsis in it.
That means there are two kinds of ellipses, and they need to be distinguished somehow. The software allows users to. Inside the quotation marks or outside? No period; just use the ellipsis. This is covered at CMOS Happy New Year! Everyday Stylish. Connect Follow on Twitter.
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