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Andrea Julia · Coach

Another grammar question

halleybird · Hermes

Punctuation is always inside quotation marks unless there's paranthetical citation, i.e. "Grammar kicks major butt" (Halleybird 29).

e_doli · Dooney & Bourke

i think you are asking about the period being inside or outside the quotes. in #1 i'm pretty sure you are correct -- inside quotes.

with #2, i think it should be:

She showed up at the party with her "Louis Vuitton" bag.

which i don't think answers your question, but makes the sentence more clear. (the way you had it makes it sound like the "bag" part is in question as well as the "Louis Vuitton" part)

if the sentence were:

she showed up at the party with her "boyfriend".

i think you would be right -- period outside the quotes.

ooh, halleybird beat me to it. an i guess i was wrong. i bow to the grammar goddess.

-- Edited by e_doli at 19:55, 2004-12-15

Andrea Julia · Coach

quote:
Originally posted by: e_doli
"i think you are asking about the period being inside or outside the quotes. in #1 i'm pretty sure you are correct -- inside quotes. with #2, i think it should be: She showed up at the party with her "Louis Vuitton" bag. which i don't think answers your question, but makes the sentence more clear. (the way you had it makes it sound like the "bag" part is in question as well as the "Louis Vuitton" part) if the sentence were: she showed up at the party with her "boyfriend". i think you would be right -- period outside the quotes."

Yeah, that's what I meant for the second example. I most likely would have said "Louis Vuitton" bag as well, but I needed the quote to come at the end of the sentence and I was completely blanking out on a good example. Although there are often situations when I ask myself the question of whether or not the period goes outside the quotes in situation #2, I just couldn't remember them.