Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 01:36:37 -0400
From: Ted White <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Paging Rod Serling...
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

Elspeth Kovar wrote:

>  At 07:52 PM 10/24/2005, Keith F. Lynch wrote:
>
[...]
 >
> > As for whether question marks, periods, commas, semicolons, etc.,
> > go inside or outside the quote marks, and as to whether you should
> > use 'single' or "double" quote marks, I know of only one person who
> > really cares one way or the other. (Unfortunately, he's a
> > coworker.)
>
>  Could you ask your coworker if commas should be inside or outside of
>  quotations? I use a lot of parenthetical phrases when writing,
>  probably too many of them, and don't know what to do when they end
>  with a quotation.

I don't *think* Keith was referring to me, but I can tell you that quote
marks go outside commas in most quoted phrases, as they also go outside
periods.  But when exclamation points or question marks are involved it
depends on whether they are part of the passage being quoted or reflect
the emphasis or question of the person *doing* the quoting.

--Ted White