Specific punctuation, AmE vs BrE (duplicate)?
If I’m using a quote with period
- but don’t want to end the sentence, do you keep the period? How effective
is using punctuation in English if English is not fluent in all the senses? When I was reading Oxford English Grammar I came across strange thoughts. As such, I came across something which is inaccurate. If nothing else, what do we have to do?
The following two example is from the book and on how AmE kind of decree that the final punctuation be included in the end quotation mark.
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One writer, signing his letter as “Red-blooded, balanced male,” remarked upon the “frequency of women fainting in peals” and suggested that they “settle back in their traditional role making tea at meetings. Last
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December, he made his Metropolitan Opera debut leading “The Tales of Hoffman”; he returns his winter to do “Samson and Delilah” and “Faust.” How
can I find out if the semicolon is correctly placed in the second sentence or longer?
What does a semicolon, without the question mark on the answer enclose a quote?
What is not clear is the question of who should comma or period in a quotation letter, but instead they should follow what would be understood as “standard” punctuation. For example, US and British style punctuation are plural.
What is not clear is the question of who should comma or period in a quotation letter, but instead they should follow what would be understood as “standard” punctuation. For example, US and British style punctuation are plural.
