in the british logical quotation system, the full stop typically goes inside quotation marks with speech marks when the full stop is part of the quoted material.
in the british logical quotation system, the full stop typically goes inside quotation marks with speech marks when the full stop is part of the quoted material.
in the british logical quotation system, where does the full stop typically go with speech marks when the full stop is part of the quoted material?
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the practice in the united states and canada is to place full stops and commas inside quotation marks in most styles. in the british system, which is also called "logical quotation", full stops and commas are placed according to grammatical sense: this means that when they are part of the quoted material, they should be placed inside, and otherwise should be outside. for example, they are placed outside in the cases of words-as-words, titles of short-form works, and quoted sentence fragments.









































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a third system, known as "logical quotation", is strict about not including terminal punctuation within the quotation marks unless it was also found in the quoted material. some writers conflate logical quotation and the common british style (which actually permits some variation, such as replacement of an original full stop with a comma or vice versa, to suit the needs of the quoting sentence, rather than moving the non-original punctuation outside the quotation marks). for example, "the chicago manual of style", 14th ed.: "the british style is strongly advocated by some american language experts. whereas there clearly is some risk with question marks and exclamation points, there seems little likelihood that readers will be misled concerning the period or comma." it goes on to recommend "british" or logical quotation for fields such as linguistics, literary criticism, and technical writing, and also notes its use in philosophy texts.
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