Don Vito Corleone
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Originally posted by: moshquerade
correct, i should've said quotation marks. it's hard multi-tasking sometimes.
yet, i still don't know if i agree that your quotation marks were properly placed.
do you have any grammatical reference to proper placement?
Here is one I found on Google. I have no idea if it's particularly well-regarded. It is coincidentally called the Blue Book (the universally-accepted American legal-citation reference book is also called the Blue Book). Here is the relevant portion:
Rule 1. Periods and commas always go inside quotation marks, even inside single quotes. Examples:
The sign changed from "Walk," to "Don't Walk," to "Walk" again within 30 seconds.
She said, "Hurry up."
She said, "He said, 'Hurry up.'"