It seems to me that blogging is about as useful a way of passing the time as tossing pebbles into the sea, so for what it's worth - and that's not a lot - here are a few pebbles.
I said story. It's not a joke. I would say trust me, but that's usually a line I use to set other up. So I am going to save that line and use it later.
My instinct tells me it's a trick question. That means I will bite and say inside the quotes. I haven't seen any punctuation marks place outside of quotation marks when the quotation marks are at the end of a sentence.
I did a little research... emphasis on little... using the third edition of the Writer's Guide and Index to English. It appears that some writers consider quotation marks optional. That said, about the only exceptions to putting punctuation inside the quotes is when a question mark or exclamation mark belongs to a sentence that includes the quotation, it is place after the quotes. Semicolons also usually stand after the quotes.
Thank you. I must try and get myself a copy of Fowler's English Usage, although I've probably got the title wrong. It's coming to something when one has to look up the title so that one can look up something in the book (if you see what I mean)!
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Nice.
It reminds me of a story.
I think I may even post it somewhere.
Strange... there's no word for the Visual verification?
Aha! Someone slipped up and forgot to insert it in the previous window
I just hope this story's not as bad as the last one!
I said story. It's not a joke. I would say trust me, but that's usually a line I use to set other up. So I am going to save that line and use it later.
My old granny used to say, 'I'll believe you; thousands wouldn't.'
Now, should the full stop (point) in the sentence above come before or after the quote mark?
My instinct tells me it's a trick question.
That means I will bite and say inside the quotes. I haven't seen any punctuation marks place outside of quotation marks when the quotation marks are at the end of a sentence.
No, it wasn't a trick question. I really wasn't sure, though I thought I was correct in putting the stop inside the quote marks.
I did a little research... emphasis on little... using the third edition of the Writer's Guide and Index to English. It appears that some writers consider quotation marks optional. That said, about the only exceptions to putting punctuation inside the quotes is when a question mark or exclamation mark belongs to a sentence that includes the quotation, it is place after the quotes. Semicolons also usually stand after the quotes.
Thank you. I must try and get myself a copy of Fowler's English Usage, although I've probably got the title wrong. It's coming to something when one has to look up the title so that one can look up something in the book (if you see what I mean)!
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