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Posted: March 31 2005 at 3:54pm | IP Logged Quote JennGM
Could someone tell me what is correct punctuation below? Is it with the quotation marks inside or outside the comma, a or b?:

a) Easter is the "feast of feasts," therefore, have a "no holds barred" attitude on your family celebration.

b) Easter is the "feast of feasts", therefore, have a "no holds barred" attitude on your family celebration.

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Posted: March 31 2005 at 4:18pm | IP Logged Quote Lissa
Jenn,
The U.S. style is to put commas and periods inside quotation marks (example A). British style is to put them outside (example b). However, in the sentence above, I'd actually use a semicolon instead of a comma to separate the two clauses. And in conventional American usage, colons and semicolons go *outside* the quotation marks. So your example sentence would be punctuated:

Easter is the "feast of feasts"; therefore, have a "no holds barred" attitude on your family celebration.

Hope this makes sense! :)


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Posted: March 31 2005 at 4:20pm | IP Logged Quote JennGM
Well, I was just writing a sentence for an example...so I know it was a poor one....but you get my drift! Thanks. I think I like the British way, that's why it bothers me so when I write sentences like this.

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