Okay, I know that American grammar/style say that punctuation (with a few exceptions) should go eminside/em quotation marks, and I understand this when the quotes are full sentences. However, I don’t think it makes sense to include the period inside the quotes when putting a single word or phrase in quotes at the end of a sentence.br /br /emShe said she was “tired.”/embr /br /So, because this is emmy/em blog, I’ve decided to go with British style rules and move the punctuation outside of the quotes.br /br /emShe said she was “tired”./embr /br /Yeah, it might be the most rebellious thing I’ve ever done.br /br /br /br /a href=”http://www.mylivesignature.com/” target=”_blank”img style=”BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; BORDER-TOP: medium none; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none” src=”http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54486/128/0E4A8EA9D2A4A002FC32D3D163051882.png” //abr /br /br /––––-–––––-––––––––-–––––––-––––-––––––-–-––––––-–––-–-–––br /span style=”font-size:85%;”Check out /spana href=”http://mythreedoodles.blogspot.com/2008/06/and-this-weeks-favorite-things.html”span style=”font-size:85%;”this week’s giveaway/span/aspan style=”font-size:85%;”: A $25 gift certificate to /spana href=”http://scripts.affiliatefuture.com/AFClick.asp?affiliateID=129253amp;merchantID=2533amp;programmeID=6755amp;mediaID=0amp;tracking=amp;url=http://www.duckduckgooseboutique.com/”span style=”font-size:85%;”Duck Duck Goose Boutique/span/aspan style=”font-size:85%;”!/span
I’m a rebel!
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I’m rebellious with you. And it’s one of the most rebellious things I do too.
WHOA!!! Put down the drink and slowwwwwwly back away from the keyboard Mandi!!! Have you checked your temp lately?! Are you sure you don’t need to take another one of those tests?! This is wayyy too crazy for you!
On that note…. I totally agree with you