In American English, commas and periods go inside the quotation marks. Semi-colons, question marks and exclamation marks go inside the quotation marks only if they're part of the quotation.

Note that the comma would be where it is, regardless of what you substitute for the word Fred. The comma is not part of the title, so the comma does not belong inside the quote. Therefore in this …

Oct 6, 2018 · In general, the comma goes inside quotation marks in US English and outside quotation marks in UK English. But the problem with your question is that the context is not very clear. Are …

Putting punctuation for the end of a sentence inside a quotation is so illogical to us programmers, this is because we see that the quote is a subset of the sentence and the fullstop is the end of sentence …

One issue that comes up when you use quotation marks is where to put other punctuation like periods, commas, and question marks. Should they go outside of the quotation marks or inside? The issue is …

The rules about when to put punctuation inside or outside of quotes are fairly complex, particularly if you are using "American" or non-"logical" style. Not all punctuation marks are placed before quotations in …

By the way, this is a probable duplicate of Punctuation for sentence ending in quotation marks and a question mark that is part of a title, which was itself closed as a duplicate.

Where do I put a comma when I have quotes around a short story, and the sentence structure needs a comma? I know that, generally, commas go inside of quotes, but what if the quotes are marking a sh...

Jun 21, 2020 · 0 If the punctuation is part of the quoted material, the quote mark would go outside of the punctuation. He said, "I hate you." If the quoted material contains no punctuation--perhaps a phrase: …

Dec 22, 2012 · Does it matter what the particular punctuation is, including such punctuation as commas, colons, parentheses and other brackets, periods, and quotation marks? Does it matter whether the …