If I had a sentence that said:
As someone once said "awareness is empowering."
I'm I correct to have the full stop before the inverted commas or should it be outside? I would like to know the British way please!
I don't know about British convention, but here in middle America the period would go inside the quotation marks. Also, a comma would be added after 'said', and 'awareness' would be capitalized.
ONly in the instance where the entire sentence is in inverted commas would the full stop also be with them - at least thats what i was told - any part of a sentence using inverted commas would have the full stop outside at its very end, as stated above.
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tycoon
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Thu 27 May, 2010 08:26 am
It does appear as though the British system would place the period outside the quotation marks. I agree it makes more sense. American convention is to place them inside, as this article explains:
Now, keep in mind that this comma and period inside the quotation marks business is strictly American usage. The British don't do it that way. They are inclined to place commas and periods logically rather than conventionally, depending on whether the punctuation belongs to the quotation or to the sentence that contains the quotation, ...
I don't know about British convention, but here in middle America the period would go inside the quotation marks. Also, a comma would be added after 'said', and 'awareness' would be capitalized.
As someone once said, "Awareness is empowering."
I totally agree with this. In the United States, periods and commas go inside the quotation marks. I also agree with the comma preceding the quote and the capital A.
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