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Originally Posted by Solitaire1
One of the things that seems a bit confusing when it comes to punctuation is the comma and the quotation marks when you are writing the exact title. As an example, if you are writing a sentence and you need to put a comma after a quoted title, which would be proper?
He wrote the following song title "Mandy," a song recorded by Barry Manilow.
or
He wrote the following song title "Mandy", a song recorded by Barry Manilow.
In the first example, it would seem that the comma would be placed incorrectly since the name of the song is "Mandy" not "Mandy,".
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Isn't this in the wrong place? If we're being seriously off-topic for the moment:
In any event, in the US, it's inside the quotes. In the UK, it's outside the quotes. And if you're going to ask me why, don't. Just we in the US being assholes, I guess. ;-)
Rule of thumb: for quotation marks, in the US, commas, periods, go inside the closing quote marks. Other info:
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/577/03/
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