--Commas and periods *always* go inside quotation marks --Colons and semicolons *always* go outside quotation marks (unless they're part of the quotation, but as a rule, you'd stop the quotation before the punctuation) --Question marks and exclamation marks go inside the quotation marks if the quoted material is the question/exclamation, and outside if the whole sentence (not just the quotation) is the question/exclamation.
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Date: 2006-07-11 06:43 pm (UTC)--Commas and periods *always* go inside quotation marks
--Colons and semicolons *always* go outside quotation marks (unless they're part of the quotation, but as a rule, you'd stop the quotation before the punctuation)
--Question marks and exclamation marks go inside the quotation marks if the quoted material is the question/exclamation, and outside if the whole sentence (not just the quotation) is the question/exclamation.