- Use a comma before a short quotation.
- Use a colon before a famous or long quotation or before a
quotation used as documentary evidence.
- Use other punctuation correctly in relation to quotation
marks. At the ends of quotations.
- Periods and commas always go inside the quotation marks.
- Semicolons, colons, and dashes always go outside the quotation
marks.
- Question marks and exclamation points go in their logical
positions.
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