Punctuation After Quotes With Question Mark
Is outside the quotation.
Punctuation after quotes with question mark. Sentence ending punctuation is a whole different story. Comma after question mark. Here the question is outside the quote. Is outside the quotation.
However if the quote is a question a question mark needs to be used to show the. Merry christmas squiggly said. If a question is in quotation marks the question mark should be placed inside the quotation marks. The question do you agree with the saying.
This question mostly refers to the sentence ending punctuation marks punctuation marks that introduce a quote are never placed within quotation marks. The question do you agree with the saying. If a question is within the quoted material a question mark should be placed inside the quotation marks. Quotation marks and other punctuation marks does punctuation go inside or outside quotation marks.
Quotes within quotes when a run in quotation contains quotation marks within the quoted material itself use single quotation marks in their place. Is part of the quotation. Do you agree with the saying all s fair in love and war. She asked will you still be my friend do you agree with the saying all s fair in love and war.
When the material being quoted contains a quotation within a quotation i e something in single quotation marks use double quotation marks. In english we typically use a comma to separate a quotation from an attributive tag a tag that tells the reader who is speaking or acting e g he thought or said he even if the quote would usually end in a period. Do you agree with the saying all s fair in love and war. How do you punctuate a question that quotes a question.
Although it s not exactly the same situation the ap stylebook says that when you d put a comma at the end of a quotation before the attribution but the quotation ends in a question mark you should omit the comma. She asked will you still be my friend the question will you still be my friend. If the quoted words are a question put the question mark inside the quotation marks. Use only the question mark contained in the quotation.
Which shakespeare character asked is this a dagger which i see before me the handle toward my hand but if the sentence includes a parenthetical citation place the question mark after the citation. She asked will you still be my friend the question will you still be my friend. If the entire sentence is a question put the question mark outside the quotation marks. Some of you detail oriented okay picky people may want to know what to do when the quotation and the sentence are both questions.