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Originally Posted by mrscoach
No, the American rules do NOT say to put all punctuation within the quotes. punctuation only goes IN the quotes if it goes with the actual quote, otherwise it goes OUTSIDE of the marks. In the example given it wasn't even a quote, so the comma goes after the quotation marks.
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You obviously are in a better position than I to judge this, but this is what Wiki says on the subject (emphasis mine):
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n the U.S., the standard style is called American style, typesetters' rules, printers' rules, typographical usage, or traditional punctuation, whereby commas and periods are almost always placed inside closing quotation marks.[10] This style of punctuation is common in the U.S., Canada, and in the U.K. in fiction and journalism.[11]
The other standard style—called British style or logical punctuation[12]—is to include within quotation marks only those punctuation marks that appeared in the quoted material, but otherwise to place punctuation outside the closing quotation marks.
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When dealing with words-as-words, short-form works and sentence fragments, the styles differ:
* "Carefree," in general, means "free from care or anxiety." (American practice)
* "Carefree", in general, means "free from care or anxiety". (British practice)
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Do you believe this to be wrong?