English Literature M.A. I'm interested in books specially horror stories. Living with my family and my pet. 24 years old.
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I’ll be proofreading my manuscript in a few weeks and this is so VERY helpful. Thank you so much for sharing this. Going to reblog it on my blog for my followers.
Logically, periods and commas belong outside the quoted matter, if the quoted matter itself doesn’t end with a period or comma. The British do this right, but the Americans don’t – leaving U.S. writers with two marks of punctuation inside quotation marks, but the rest (e.g., semi-colon) outside – confusing and illogical.
As I was reading this article, the Grammar Nazi in me kept screaming, “Yes, yes exactly!”, while, the timid writer in me softly confessed under my breath, “Gosh, I’ve done a few of these myself.”
World of Horror 
Bam! #1 🙂
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I like it. Good advise.
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Thanks, Cristina.
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Reblogged this on Writing in Real Time and commented:
Some more ammo for your writer’s arsenal.
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Hi,
I learned so much from this, gosh! I made so many mistakes before. XD
Thank you so much for sharing.
Have a lovely weekend.
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Hi!
Thanks for visiting my blog. Hope you enjoyed it😊
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I’ll hold on to this… Thanks
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You’re welcome😊
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Interesting
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Thanks
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It’s a pleasure
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Those are very astute observations!
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I hope that you have an incredible day and weekend. 🙂
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Thank you. The same😊
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Thank you. 🙂 🙂
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Thank you. I have to admit my punctuation isn’t always that good :o. I’ll keep this information close to hand :D.
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Reblogged this on Mandibelle16 and commented:
Maybe this is helpful for some of you 🙂
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Good to know!
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I wish I’d focussed more at school!
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ARRRAG!!! This stuff always gets me.
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I have to admit, I do the commas after quotes all the time. Do you know how it’s supposed to be?
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May I introduce you some excellent books?
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“Elements of Style” by William Strunk, “How to write dazzling dialogue”.
But the answer to your question: all the punctuations go into the quotation marks. e.g: “She’s so pretty,” he said.
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Thanks!
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Omg, plenty of young people need to see this . This is not okay “…..!” lol
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Informative…thanks for sharing
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You’re most welcome!
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I think I am a “BIG TIME SINNER”!
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I’ll be proofreading my manuscript in a few weeks and this is so VERY helpful. Thank you so much for sharing this. Going to reblog it on my blog for my followers.
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Reblogged this on Memoir Notes.
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Oh dear! I’ve done a few of these.
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Logically, periods and commas belong outside the quoted matter, if the quoted matter itself doesn’t end with a period or comma. The British do this right, but the Americans don’t – leaving U.S. writers with two marks of punctuation inside quotation marks, but the rest (e.g., semi-colon) outside – confusing and illogical.
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As I was reading this article, the Grammar Nazi in me kept screaming, “Yes, yes exactly!”, while, the timid writer in me softly confessed under my breath, “Gosh, I’ve done a few of these myself.”
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Reblogged this on Proof Perfectly and commented:
Entertaining post, so I figured it deserved a share. Enjoy.
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Great post! I’m sharing it on my blog.
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