Continue this pattern, using closing quotation marks only at the very end of the quoted material. Placement with other punctuation: A period or comma always go inside closing quotation marks. ("We ...

The Romans and the Ancient Greeks didn’t use punctuation at all. They didn’t even have gaps between words. This is called scriptio continua, writing as one continuous string of capital letters ...

With dialogue, specific punctuation is needed. Most often, commas and periods go within the quotation marks, but there are some forms of punctuation and examples that go outside of the quotation marks ...

A hyphen ( - ) is used to link parts of a compound word. This includes most dual heritages (Mexican-American), and all words in a compound modifier except "very" and adverbs that end in "ly." (The ...

Mark the boundary with a line, if you're proofreading on paper. Double-check that the boundary contains the appropriate punctuation and transition words. If two complete sentences appear next to each ...

The punctuation for integrating academic quotes is a little different than dialogue punctuation. When a quotation ends a sentence and the parenthetical citation is at the end, the period should come ...

Written by Here Design’s Philip Cowell and designed by the studio’s co-founder Caz Hildebrand, This Is Me, Full Stop gives voice to 12 everyday punctuation marks and has them explain the jobs they do ...