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Originally Posted by BetterRed
Two passes on closing quotes are only required if punctuation is sometimes inside e.g ‘This is the end of the sentence.’ and other times outside e.g. ‘This is the end of the sentence’.; having both in the same text would be an exception, probably an error.
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Not necessarily. Let me use your examples.
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‘This is the end of the sentence.’ - most cases, covered by pass one
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He played Billy Holiday’s ‘I Cover the Waterfront’ all night.... - various names (books, songs, movies) and expressions in the middle of the sentence are not covered by pass one, but by pass two (no punctuation before the closing quote, and a space after the closing quote). Other punctuation marks in pass two are probably overkill, but will do no harm. If one is averse to using them, the pass two could be shortened to:
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”\1