Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 13:41:37 -0400
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
From: Elspeth Kovar <ekovar at worldnet.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Paging Rod Serling...
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

At 01:36 AM 10/26/2005, Ted White wrote:
>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.

Ah! And thank you very much.

Elspeth