Quotes After Question Mark Or Before
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Quotes after question mark or before. After the sentence is either exclamation point or question mark in parentheses. Colons and semicolons are placed outside quotations while question marks and exclamation marks follow the logic of the sentence. In the us periods and commas are placed inside quotation marks. If a question is within the quoted material a question mark should be placed inside the quotation marks.
Is part of the quotation. In the uk the tendency is to place them outside. Therefore the following are correct. In the rare situation where the entire sentence would be a question and the last part would be quoted it would be acceptable to put the question mark after the quotes.
The same rule applies to exclamation marks and dashes. This page has examples showing the different conventions for placing punctuation inside or outside quotation marks. If the question or exclamation is at the end of the quotation the question mark or exclamation point comes beforethe closing quotation mark. I m so mad she said honey collate all these papers exclamation point 2.
Could you hand me the large sword lily asked. Question marks or exclamation points in quotations if a questionor exclamationis quoted directly the quotation contains the question mark or exclamation point. Our rule 5b of question marks says if a quoted question ends in midsentence the question mark replaces a comma therefore the following are correct. This question mostly refers to the sentence ending punctuation marks punctuation marks that introduce a quote are never placed within quotation marks.
If the quoted words are a question put the question mark inside the quotation marks. If the entire sentence is a question put the question mark outside the quotation marks. Sentence ending punctuation is a whole different story. The answers are at the bottom.
If the entire sentence was. She asked will you still be my friend the question will you still be my friend. Periods and commas always go inside quotation marks. The placement of question marks with quotation marks follows logic.
Choose whether the punctuation mark goes inside our outside of the quotation marks.