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Hello,
Happy festivities and a merry New Year to all.
I've a question for American-English cognoscenti about where to place the final punctuation when a sentence ends with single inverted commas used for emphasis.
Please note that I'm not asking about where to place the final punctuation for quotations. For Americans that's always inside the closing quote marks (usually double). This is concerning inverted commas used for emphasis[FONT="]—[/FONT]and no, alternative styles are not allowed (so using italics is not an option for this question) nor is recasting the sentences. Life is hard sometimes.
Here are two examples:
The electrician was known as 'Sparky'.
The music system was a bit 'middly'.
Should those full stops be inside the final inverted comma?
The electrician was known as 'Sparky.'
The music system was a bit 'middly.'
Thanks in advance for any replies. Would you please include a reference to a recognised grammatical authority so I can quote it?
Happy festivities and a merry New Year to all.
I've a question for American-English cognoscenti about where to place the final punctuation when a sentence ends with single inverted commas used for emphasis.
Please note that I'm not asking about where to place the final punctuation for quotations. For Americans that's always inside the closing quote marks (usually double). This is concerning inverted commas used for emphasis[FONT="]—[/FONT]and no, alternative styles are not allowed (so using italics is not an option for this question) nor is recasting the sentences. Life is hard sometimes.
Here are two examples:
The electrician was known as 'Sparky'.
The music system was a bit 'middly'.
Should those full stops be inside the final inverted comma?
The electrician was known as 'Sparky.'
The music system was a bit 'middly.'
Thanks in advance for any replies. Would you please include a reference to a recognised grammatical authority so I can quote it?