When Does Punctuation Go Inside or Outside of Quotation Marks?
I have a confession. One of my biggest pet peeves is unnecessary quotation marks — those that are scattered willy-nilly across a restaurant’s menu as if they’re pointing out special items. That’s not what quotation marks are intended for. You want bold or italics for that. And now that I’ve
gotten that off my chest, let’s talk about how to use punctuation correctly with quotation marks. Quotation marks around a word, phrase, or sentence have specific rules, and depending on whether you’re writing dialogue, quoting a person, or citing a specific word or phrase, the quotation marks and the related...
