Sentence examples for close punctuation from inspiring English sources

That's not what close punctuation is about.

Everyone knows that The New Yorker is famously fuddy-duddy for its use of "close" punctuation.

Close punctuation is not meant as a guide to stops and starts, like Dickens's and Melville's commas.

This past spring, history — in the shape of a Navy SEAL team — seemed to provide the era with some closing punctuation.

Place the closing punctuation after the parentheses.

Include a parenthetical citation after the closing punctuation.

Add the line numbers inside parentheses right after the closing punctuation of the quotation.

Add the name of the person you are quoting and the page or line numbers (if applicable) immediately after the closing punctuation of the quotation.

If your instructor has stated that you should not use footnotes or endnotes, provide the same citation information in parentheses immediately following the borrowed information and before the closing punctuation.

Here are some examples: When you start a sentence with a dialogue tag, then the same rules apply, except you'll be using a verb and a noun at the beginning of a sentence followed by a comma, an opening quote, the dialogue, a period or another form of closing punctuation, and another quote.

When you start a sentence with a dialogue tag, then the same rules apply, except you'll be using a verb and a noun at the beginning of a sentence followed by a comma, an opening quote, the dialogue, a period or another form of closing punctuation, and another quote.