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In non-fiction, some British publishers may permit placing punctuation that is not part of the person's speech inside the quotation marks but prefer that it be placed outside. [29] Periods and commas that are part of the person's speech are permitted inside the quotation marks regardless of whether the material is fiction. [29]
The practice in the United States and Canada is to place full stops and commas inside quotation marks in most styles. [35] In the British system, which is also called "logical quotation", [ 36 ] full stops and commas are placed according to grammatical sense: [ 35 ] [ 37 ] This means that when they are part of the quoted material, they should ...
Commas and periods, when following a quotation, can be placed inside or outside quotation marks depending on where they are placed in the quoted material; this is known as logical punctuation or British style. [1]
In British English, punctuation marks such as full stops and commas are placed inside the quotation mark only if they are part of what is being quoted, and placed outside the closing quotation mark if part of the containing sentence. In American English, however, such punctuation is generally placed inside the closing quotation mark regardless.
In those bills, punctuation is inside the quotation marks if the punction is contained in the original or replacement language; it is outside the quotation marks if it is not. No strange, illogical rules always placing periods and the like inside quotation marks. Gene Nygaard 05:59, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
Quotation marks [A] are punctuation marks used in pairs in various writing systems to identify direct speech, a quotation, or a phrase. The pair consists of an opening quotation mark and a closing quotation mark, which may or may not be the same glyph. [3] Quotation marks have a variety of forms in different languages and in different media.
It's not that quotation marks are some odd punctuation, it's not, but it's always the "use" of quotation marks in an email that can give me pause.
Here the comma after "prat" is inside the terminal quotation mark because it is standing in for the original period (and TQ would do it this way simply because it always puts commas inside). This is invalid in logical punctuation because it is a falsification of the literal quotation.