full stop

[blouen]

Do I need a period/full stop in this sentence?

Our topic for today is about "Who are you?".

[Anglika]

Yes - it indicates the end of the complete sentence, and it independent of the question mark in the quoted text.

[blouen]

How about this:

He said, "let's go to the park." - Do I need a full stop here? I think not!

[asmaa89]

How about this:

He said, "let's go to the park." - Do I need a full stop here? I think not!

Yes, you do need since a full stop should be put at the end of a compelet sentence.

kanosa
a learner

[blouen]

Yes, you do need since a full stop should be put at the end of a compelet sentence.

kanosa
a learner

Do you mean it should be :

He said, "let's go to the park.". - It looks odd to me!!!

[blouen]

Anglika, where are you?

[Anglika]

In bed and asleep!

The reason for the first example using two punctuation marks is that the first was a question mark. You would do the same if the quotation ended with an exclamation mark.

A quotation without one of these two marks does not need two punctuation marks. [The second topic is about "Going to the park".]

Your second sentence was not a quotation, but dialogue.

[Casiopea]

Do you mean it should be :

He said, "let's go to the park.". - It looks odd to me!!!

Me too, but then again I'm not used to UK punctuation.

American punctuation:

He said, "Let's go to the park."
Our topic for today is Who are you?

[bianca]

My two cents:

full stop after quotation marks, not before.

He said, "let's go to the park".

[RonBee]

Me too, but then again I'm not used to UK punctuation.

American punctuation:

He said, "Let's go to the park."
Our topic for today is Who are you?

I agree. Also, I think the first sentence would be the same in both BE and AE.

~R