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Thump;613788; said:
Yes. When ending a sentence with quotation marks, the question mark/period/ exclamation point always goes inside the quotation marks.
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Just asking. And you were quick enough to quote me before I could double check it and delete my post. :wink2:
 
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Thump;613813; said:
Nope, that's how it's taught in school. :biggrin:
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I reiterate:

Rule 2. The placement of question marks with quotes follows logic. If a question is in quotation marks, the question mark should be placed inside the quotation marks. Examples She asked, "Will you still be my friend?"
Do you agree with the saying, "All's fair in love and war"?
Here the question is outside the quote. NOTE: Only one ending punctuation mark is used with quotation marks. Also, the stronger punctuation mark wins. Therefore, no period after war is used.
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You were taught incorrectly.
 
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FCollinsBuckeye;613817; said:
Rule 2. The placement of question marks with quotes follows logic. If a question is in quotation marks, the question mark should be placed inside the quotation marks. Examples She asked, "Will you still be my friend?"
Do you agree with the saying, "All's fair in love and war"?
Here the question is outside the quote. NOTE: Only one ending punctuation mark is used with quotation marks. Also, the stronger punctuation mark wins. Therefore, no period after war is used.
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That's what I was taught, too. But my confidence was shaken by my run-in with OSU_Buckguy and I didn't want to look stoopid again. :sad2:
 
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Got some ink today. The people still love the man with the fuzzy cheeks.


COMMENTARY
Paterno?s visit a moment to cherish for OSU fans

Saturday, September 23, 2006

BOB HUNTER


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If you can get close enough to make Joe Paterno appear larger than a bespectacled grain of sand in your viewfinder today, snap a few pictures.
It might seem silly to you now, but you?ll want them later. Twenty or 30 years from now, when you want to show them off, no one will turn down your offer. Fifty or 75 years from now, your grandchildren will either treasure them or offer them for sale on their generation?s eBay.
Or maybe you have a child who?s old enough to remember something more than the cotton candy some drunken reveler gave them from a neighboring tailgate. Make a point of showing them the old guy on the Penn State sideline. Don?t bore them with Paterno?s life story or statistics from his career. (You might be fascinated by the Paterno-Bobby Bowden race to finish as college football?s winningest coach, but your kid?s eyes will glaze over as if you were talking about Chester Arthur?s presidency). Simply saying that old "dude" on the Penn State side is "sweet" might be enough, or you could just say he?s a legend and someday you?ll want to remember seeing him.
 
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Nixon, it must suck donkey nuts that people can call you dick and you can never know their true context.

Anyone got a few Magnums I can get...riding out with the Kennedys and Clinton. They said something about happy hour and a party at Charlie Sheen's crib.
 
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Thump, semicolons and colons are always placed outside quotations. If you had a Hahvahd education like me, you would know that. :p

Speaking of colons, I really need to take care of that burrito I ate last night.

Dick, how do you tell the difference between Checkers and Pat?
 
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