As an aside: Does the period belong inside or outside the quotation mark?
spot;1294452 wrote: My school taught me logical punctuation, and fortunately my sense of what's elegant agrees with what I was taught.
http://ling.ed.ac.uk/~gpullum/punctfree.pdf is an excellent article and well worth careful reading. Flexibility in choosing whether to put the full stop inside or outside allows more information to be conveyed. When in doubt, through ignorance of the original text, I'd use outside as the default since inside makes an unjustifiable claim.
Ahso!;1294538 wrote: Thanks, Spot! I'll read it.Thanks for the entertaining and educational read, Spot. The paper provided much needed accurate and inaccurate examples of proper (and improper) punctuation for the purposes of written 'expression'.
(Though I realize I need to practice regularly.)
I should make the reading of this paper a daily chore!