[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Run-on sentences

[Aleta Turner]

On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Carol <justcarol67 at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> Carol responds:
>
> You're welcome. Glad I could help. I should mention that the rule applies
> only to periods and commas. Question marks and exclamation points can go
> inside or outside the quotation marks depending on whether they're part of
> the quoted material/dialogue or part of the sentence itself. Just to make it
> confusing. . . .
>
>

I have always disliked this rule (and willingly disobey it) because it is
illogical.
It seems to me that if the quotation is not the entire sentence, then the
period -
which is intended to signal the end of the sentence - should go outside the
quotation marks. Why do we have a different (silly, I think) rule for that
anyway? Do you know the history there?

Aleta

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