Quotations Marks with Other Punctuation

[Croynan]

What? No Information on How One Should Write? There in lies my problem.​

eM.​

 

[Croynan]

I don't understand the question.

This is information on how one should write in regards to quotations.

If you're looking for more, the website is here:

http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/qmarks.html

We may have just had a sample of "cultural clash" and or humour does not travel well on the printed page. My question was meant as a "joke"

However, in taking me seriously you have provided me with a most interesting website, for which i thank you very much.

eM. ​

 

[ashonfire]

Were you not taught this stuff in school?!?

 

[Gay Angel]

That's why we have "emoticons", better known as "smileys" available.

I thought you just said commas always go inside the quotations?

 

[herenthere]

I thought you just said commas always go inside the quotations?

LOL...

You are so busted.....

 

[Arkansas Lad]

I thought you just said commas always go inside the quotations?

Do as he says, not as he does! Isn't that the saying?

 

[ashonfire]

My understanding is that you don't ALWAYS put commas within quotation marks. Only if you're directly quoting something or a character is speaking (if it's a story).. I reckon JD's sentence is alright.

Grammar ain't my strongpoint though.

 

[herenthere]

Yes. I was.

Would you rather talk about poop or something else?

As I said in the first post, only a handful will find it informative/interesting.

I guess I should've added that about 90% will find it annoying or offensive.

I find these little help tips to be very interesting..
Since English is not my native language, I'm always trying to learn more about spelling, proper grammer and punctuation...

I appreciate your help...

Shaun

 

[ashonfire]

Jeez, I was a bit slow posting that, um x-x-x-x-x-post.

I wasn't having a go at you JDs, I was actually considering starting a thread about how to spell "definitely" the other day. I'm not above discussing the intricasies of the English language.

Carry on.

 

[Gay Angel]

Read it again.
..when they are part of the quotation, and outside when they do not.

You said in your original post that question marks, exclamation marks and dashes go inside when part of the quotation, and outside when not a part of the quotation, and that commas always go inside - you did not specify in that original post that that rule does not apply to off-setting words in a sentence, instead of merely quoting them.

 

[Arkansas Lad]

^ You're welcome, Shaun.

Grammar threads are notoriously volatile on message boards.

Ironic, isn't it.

All kidding aside, I appreciate the info and even bookmarked the link. I always have trouble remember grammar rules and part of my job is writing (and my boss likes it when I do it correctly so it doesn't make us look like total idiots).

 

[Gay Angel]

You said in your original post that question marks, exclamation marks and dashes go inside when part of the quotation, and outside when not a part of the quotation, and that commas always go inside - you did not specify in that original post that that rule does not apply to off-setting words in a sentence, instead of merely quoting them.

I also just want to point out that I am familiar with the grammatical usage of quotation marks, and that I was already familiar with the fact that commas go inside when part of a quotation, and outside when not a part of that quotation - I just wanted to make sure that your original post was entirely accurate. When you "off-set" a word, you are not quoting anything, but you are using quotation marks, and that is where some of the misunderstanding could arise.

 

[OutofEden]

Interesting to read and recall, thanks for the post.

 

[Gay Angel]

I didn't say any of it, Frances Peck did.

At the end of the first post: written by Frances Peck.

Regardless, if you are putting Frances Peck's grammar rules forward as the correct usage of punctuation in these circumstances, perhaps you should make sure it is 100% accurate prior to posting it.

 

[Gay Angel]

I gave the link to the site further up on the thread.

I may have read that part elsewhere on the site.

As for making sure it is %100 acurate, that's where people like yourself come in to play. I'm no grammar expert and I'm not pretending to be, I hope, just by posting an interesting excerpt I found.

Fair enough. I can live with that

 

[herenthere]

Those of you who have no interest in this type of thread, why not move on and let others learn from the posting..

Go talk about poop, or how old you were when you shot your first load..

 

[Endlight]

Thanks for the info. I for one always took a few minutes to figure it out when I wrote. Then would usually write the quotations wrong.

Thanks for the web site and its in my home town. Yikes!

 

[dw8038r2]

I teach this stuff in an upper-level writing class for international students. It might be considered trivial by some, but when they write correctly, my students look as intelligent as they really are.

 

[treanir]

Were you not taught this stuff in school?!?

Sadly, no. I did HAVO, the second-highest form of secondary education in the Netherlands and we were not taught punctuation in quotations. There was very little writing in general. Most of our time was spent on oral argumentation and summarising. We had to wait for this until the third year of college. And even that was somewhat of an elective.


Thanks JDsmagik.

 

[Scrub]

I found this interesting.

Thanks

Of course, now I'm sitting here wondering if I do it right or wrong.