Sentence examples for closing punctuation from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

A further examination of both sets of outputs from the paraphrasing tools identified that the tools appear to retain most words and formatting close to punctuation.

When this happens, just close the quote with end punctuation as you normally would.