That’s how we ended up with such a hard-to-punctuate sentence, with an apostrophe, a single closing quotation mark and a double closing quotation mark all at the end. Now that you’re refreshed ...

Punctuation basics are easy. A period ends a sentence. A comma represents a pause. A quotation mark indicates a quotation. An apostrophe shows possession. Most people get that. But the finer ...

("We hope to win the game," he said.) A dash, semicolon, question mark and exclamation point go inside closing quotation marks when the punctuation applies to the quotation itself and outside when it ...

Sometimes a full stop is used outside of the quotation marks, this is because the full stop belongs to the whole sentence, not the original quotation: In A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens the ...

When a quotation ends a sentence and the parenthetical citation is at the end ... Note the order of the punctuation: Quotation mark, citation, and then period. If only part of a quote is needed, it is ...