Quotations After Question Mark

Use just one ending punctuation mark with quotation marks. Put it outside if the question belongs to the writer. “what would you do,” i asked, “if money didn’t matter?”.

All she kept saying during the trip was “are we there yet?” In american english, commas and periods should be placed within the quotation marks as long as they do not change the meaning of the quotation. “do you want to come to the movies with us ?”, mary asked.

Examples the flight attendant asked, “may i see your boarding pass?” buddha says, “even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.” colon a colon should be used when the text introducing the quoted material could stand as a sentence on its own.

If the entire sentence is a question, put the question mark outside the quotation marks. “what would you do,” i asked, “if money didn’t matter?”. The placement of question marks with quotation marks follows logic. In instances where punctuation would change the meaning of the quotation—that is, when the punctuation, such as a question mark or exclamation point, does not belong to the quotation—it should be.