Period In Quotation Marks

Some are included within the quotation marks, if it makes sense, and other are outside of it. He said, we need to tell the boss right away. she reported that the boss was, in her words, miffed. When to use quotation marks.

A period can be used to introduce a block quotation when the introductory text stands on its own as a complete sentence. The colon should be placed outside the quotation marks, unless a part of the quotation. Periods convey a definitive pause.

The word democracy derives from the greek words demos ‘people’ and.

In the united states, the rule of thumb is that commas and periods always go inside the quotation marks, and colons and semicolons (dashes as well) go outside: A comma or period that follows a closing double quotation mark hangs off by itself and creates a gap in the line of text (since the space over the comma or period combines with the following word space). To present stimuli in the text (long lists of stimuli may be better presented in a table, where quotation marks are not needed) The sign changed from “walk,” to “don’t walk,” to “walk” again within 30 seconds.