RE: More fuss over punk-U-way-shun.

Two periods ending one sentence ... hmmm ... nah, there is only one period
per customer... oops -- sentence.  According to "The Elements of Grammar,"
Jane Doe would have said, "Hi, there."

The example in the book for a partial quote is as follows:
All my broker will say is that "it's just too early to spot a trend." (By
the way, you might have noticed that there is no comma before the opening
quotation mark.) Another example: One witness said the explosion lit up the
predawn sky "like a doggone sunset."

Regardless of whether it is used in a partial or complete sentence, a period
is always placed inside quotation marks; a semicolon (or a colon) is placed
outside (EX -- taken from "The Elements of Grammar": We called him "Lucky";
he preferred "Lawrence.").

Deb


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-hwg-basics(at)hwg.org [mailto:owner-hwg-basics(at)hwg.org]On
> Behalf Of Gardenia Willoughby
> Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2000 3:19 PM
> To: Ted Temer; hwg-basics(at)mail.hwg.org
> Subject: Re: More fuss over punk-U-way-shun.
>
>
> Ted Temer wrote:
>
> > But my understanding of this period and quotes business is thus:
> >
>
> Like you said, it's only bandwidth.
>
> > 1. If the quote is only a part of the sentence, then the quote
> is inside,
> > (before) the period.
> >
> > EX: Jane Doe said, "Hi there".
> > (The quote was part of the sentence and the period is placed at
> the END of
> > the sentence.
> >
> > 2. If the whole sentence is a quote, then the period is part of
> the quote
> > and goes inside, (before), the quote>
> >
> > EX: Jane Doe spoke. "Hi there, everybody." Here the whole sentence,
> > including the period, is a quote.
> >
> The above two statements are true of question marks, colons, and
> semicolons.
> However, the period goes inside the quotation marks no matter what (unless
> the quoted material is inside parentheses at the end of the
> sentence, "like
> this").
>
> > 3. It gets a little fuzzy when a quote within a sentence
> actually completes
> > a thought on it's own and sounds like a complete sentence. I
> wish you could
> > have heard the fuss between a proof reader from Total Printing and an
> > English Instructor from our community college this morning as they read
> > Kim's e-mail. It was strongly argued by one of them at least, that there
> > should be TWO periods.
> >
> > EX: Jane Doe said, "My name is Jane.".
> >
>
> Oh how horrible!  I've never heard of such a thing!   I shudder
> to think of
> TWO periods in the same sentence.
>
> Anyone else?
>
> Gardenia
>

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