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Originally Posted by Lo Zeno
Here is one key difference from British and American English, that you just highlighted:
when two full stops are concurrent (one for the quoted sentence, and one for the quoting sentence), of course only one would be needed; the difference is, you wrote it INSIDE the quote:
She moved towards him and said "Don't do that again."
A British would write it OUTSIDE the quote:
She moved towards him and said "Don't do that again".
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That depends. In Britain we would write the full stop inside the quote
if it's part of the text being quoted. In this case, it's debatable whether or not it is.