I am not a bad writer, or grammarian, or punctuator. I do believe I'll go to my grave without learning when to put period or comma within or outside quotation marks or parentheses.
Sometimes we grow to be fond of our little glitches. That's not "self-serving", or "self-serving," or (self serving?)or (self-serving)?
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It seems like you don't want to know this, but here is a quote rule. Generally, the period goes inside the quotation: "Blah blah blah." However, when the content of the quotation is not a sentence, or you are, for instance, trying to ask a question outside the quotation: Did you want to "blah blah blah"? or: This is the sentence, "this is a fragment".
ReplyDeleteI think that's what I learned.
Also, my own punctuation there was atrocious.