@PUNKEY,
PUNKEY wrote:You have been told many times that the punctuation mark goes inside the quote marks.
That is not a complete or accurate summary. British and American styles are different, which is why he asked you what he did. You should check these things first before posting rudely, like this:
Quote:Yet you ask the same question over and over. What don't you understand?
Tanguatlay, in American style there is an iron rule. Punkey believes this is universal - it is not. British practice to put punctuation where it logically belongs. Since what you have quoted, indeed stated, is a complete sentence, in this case, then logically the punctuation belongs inside the quotes. If a complete sentence in quotes comes at the end of a larger sentence, the final stop should be inside the inverted commas. Thus,
The answer was, “You can't wash your hands in a buffalo.”
She replied, “Your jokes are execrable.”