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Should we start placing commas outside quotation marks?
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SEEEEEEEEEEEEEE? Sallers, take a look - periods WERE placed inside quotation marks, I wasn't going crazy!Keep everything inside, just say no to the new fangled way! And get off my lawn!
'the publisher i intern at sometimes places the comma outside quotations marks', i replied. 'but only,' i said, 'in cases similar to that first sentence. the varying rules make editing a bitch.'
I always thought it depended on the context or what you were quoting. The examples in the article are no different than what I was taught in school. Being Canadian, I must have been taught the British style.This example looks wrong to me: Did you watch "Sex in the City?" It looks right as: Did you watch "Sex in the City"? The title of the movie is only part of a sentence.
The only time we put punctuation inside a quotation was if you were quoting a full sentence or question.
RA said, "Should we start placing commas outside quotation marks?"
Janice, I'm on your side--it's all about the context!
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