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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.”