He arrived on Prince Edward Island (then called Island of St. John) and recommended both the current location of Charlottetown as well as the name âCharlotte Townâ to honour Queen Charlotte, wife of George III of England.
1 When only the unit in quotation marks is a question or exclamation, the mark goes inside the closing quotation mark. 2  When both the whole sentence and the unit enclosed in quotation marks are questions or exclamations, the question or exclamation mark goes inside the closing quotation mark.
Could someone please help me with the following question. Do I put the punctuation mark (comma or full stop) after or before the single quotation mark? I am writing academic text. (I'm not sure if 'single quotation mark' is even the correct grammatical term - what I mean is not a direct quote, when one uses xxx.) For example: