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Page 492

Quotation Marks . . .

492.1 Placement of Punctuation

Periods and commas after quoted material always go inside the quotation marks.

“Let’s go,” said Angelo. Angelo said, “Let’s go.”

An exclamation point or a question mark is placed inside the quotation marks when it punctuates the quotation; it is placed outside when it punctuates the main sentence.

Ari asked, “How much do skydiving lessons cost?”

Did I hear Angelo say, “I love skydiving”?

Semicolons or colons after quoted material go outside the quotation marks.

Ari memorized the poem “Sky”; he also recited “Rain.”

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