Sentence examples for inside quotation marks from inspiring English sources
In the United States, periods and commas are always put inside quotation marks and semicolons and colons always outside.
Reply: In the United States, periods and commas are always put inside quotation marks and semicolons and colons always outside.
If he wants to make use of their sentence-making ability, he need only place their words inside quotation marks.
"Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles" does not place the hero's nickname inside quotation marks as did the first two films: " 'Crocodile' Dundee" (1986) and " 'Crocodile' Dundee II" (1988).
"What I could not do," he said of his approach to Castelo Branco's novel, "and what I think is the mistake many people make with this kind of material, is to mock it, to put it inside quotation marks".
One reason she was so good in Brian De Palma's convoluted noir "The Black Dahlia," in which she crept around like poison ivy, is that her performance as a femme fatale is set inside quotation marks.
Periods and commas always go inside quotations marks in the U.S. Example: "There are many birds here," said Bill.
We are informed that when a sentence ends with a quotation American usage always places the terminal punctuation inside the quotation marks, which is not so.
He acknowledged that there should have been ellipses in the shortened Kafka quotation, but said it was O.K. to change Kafka's words inside the quotation marks since the exam noted that it was an "adapted quote".
