Punctuation: Periods and Question Marks inside of vs outside of Quotation Marks

[Dante]

Really? Are you helping out the English usage cripples?

That's the "Inquisitively-Challenged-Student" Brigade. Was hoping some dimwit like Ringel05, he Special Ed Assistant would show up and help out.

 

[Dante]

Periods and Question Marks inside of vs outside​

A lot of thoughts relating to Question Marks but I was hoping to have new facts about Periods .
Between us , mine seem to be fading and failing and I am a worried woman.
Where have they gone?
Have they internalised and are they wreaking unseen havoc and damage ?

It's not an easy subject for a woman to openly discuss in mixed company but I wonder if any transexuals here have any valuable comments .
Preferably not dirty or abusive -- but where has my natural spillage gone ?

Seek out OhPleaseJustQuit, who seems to be one with a non-stop period.

 

[Dante]

Dante Could you search wold under your username please and the several times you used it, could you please explain what relevance it had to do with your reply -


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So, one would FIND about a half dozen obvious fast-fingerings, or plain lazy typos from not hitting keys strong enough and not obsessed with proofreading every single post.

You truly are a dope, and that's a good thing. We need things like you.

 

[Dante]

Dante I was looking at your poor standard of comma usage before quotation marks, do you want to follow English or American English?


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Or, why not just go **** yourself. Penis.

Dante actually mixes it up. Habit from long ago when he baited Trolls who checked syntax et al., for identifying socks. Dante along with a few others were bright and cunning enough to seed posts with British vs American versions of words -- the speltings - as Dante sometimes would refer to it all, baiting Tools and Fools like yourself.

Now go away. You bore The Dante.

 

[Dante]

The fascinating wold, of Punctuation usage.

 

[luiza]

Seek out OhPleaseJustQuit, who seems to be one with a non-stop period.

Is this then your variation of a form of Dating Agency?

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Please return my Subscription money .

 

[Dante]

Is this then your variation of a form of Dating Agency?

Good presenters offer useful , immediate and personal advice and solutions .

Please return my Subscription money .

You use dating agencies?

Hmm...

 

[Frankeneinstein]

A question mark goes outside a quotation mark when the entire sentence is a question, but the quoted material is not. When the quote is not a question, the question mark outside indicates the whole sentence is a question, such as: Did she say, “I am tired”?. [1, 2, 3, 4]
Key Rules for Question Marks Outside Quotes

• Whole Sentence is a Question:Use the question mark outside if the quotation itself is a statement but the sentence it is part of is a question.
  • Example: What did she mean by "no way"?
• Logic Wins: If the quoted material is part of a larger question, the question mark follows the closing quotation mark.
• No Extra Period: Do not add a period after the question mark if it is at the end of the sentence. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

Contrast with Inside the Quote

• If the quoted text is a question, the question mark goes inside.
  • Example: He asked, “Is it over?”
• If the quote is a question, but the surrounding sentence is not, you generally keep the question mark inside and do not add a period outside

Why don't ya do stuff like this more often "?" "[I messed it up didn't I]"?...oh well, good job bro, academics are always a noble endeavor.

 

[Dante]

Why don't ya do stuff like this more often "?" "[I messed it up didn't I]"?...oh well, good job bro, academics are always a noble endeavor.

Stay ignorant. We all need you as an example.

 

[Frankeneinstein]

Stay ignorant. We all need you as an example.

the blind leading the blind as it were

 

[Dante]

the blind leading the blind as it were

Go away.

 

[Frankeneinstein]

Stay ignorant. We all need you as an example.

Q. what do intellectuals never say

 

[Frankeneinstein]

Stay ignorant. We all need you as an example.

nice to be looked to for guidence

 

[Frankeneinstein]

Stay ignorant. We all need you as an example.

and the lessons are already paying dividends

 

[Captain Caveman]

So, one would FIND about a half dozen obvious fast-fingerings, or plain lazy typos from not hitting keys strong enough and not obsessed with proofreading every single post.

You truly are a dope, and that's a good thing. We need things like you.

And there you go dope, preaching to others to get their English right and you can't achieve it yourself. A classic bellend.

 

[Dante]

And there you go dope, preaching to others to get their English right and you can't achieve it yourself. A classic bellend.

See?

Link to where Dante lectured others on that in this thread.

Now again, take a course in reading & comprehension.

Stop post to what you imagine in that effed up brain of yours.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

When you debate with someone, if they're more interested in punctuation, grammar, spelling etc.. they're not worth talking to. We are not sitting an English exam. 99% of the time, tap it out and hit post, even proof reading goes out of the window most of the time.

You are on the wrong forum if the quotes and question marks don't land where you want them. The IMPORTANT part is, just as long you understood the reply.

I'd Rather Be a "Grammar Nazi" Than Not See Grammar

College "education" puts inferior minds in superior position. Gradchewits' ignorant and made-up English skills reveal that, making them claim,"Grammer dont hardly matter nothing nohow."

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

In the early 1960's I was taught if a name ending in "s" was a possessive, an apostrophe would suffice.
Such as Thomas' boat.

Lately I've been noticing the inclusion of the "s" is such circumstances. It looks weird to me.
Such as a recent headline Justice Thomas's Constitution.

Only Stupid People Think College Graduates Are "Smart in School"

That usage is dysfunctional. Proof was when Trump gave a medal to the widow of a hero named Owens. The mentally inferior college-gradchewit media referred to her as "Owens' wife." The next day gullible viewers who think the media have language skills referred to him as "Owen," because "Owens' wife" is pronounced the same as "Owen's wife."

Also revealed that Christianity has been taken over by this upper-class dumbing down is "In Jesus' Name."

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

Really? Are you helping out the English usage cripples?

Writing Plural Word's Like This Is an Apostrophe Catastrophe

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

Are you helping out the English usage cripples?

Do You Mean the Cow-ledge Gradchewits, Especially the English Majors?

The epitaph on the gravestone of the American economy reads, "To Get a Good Job, Get a Good Education."