Kristine May
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[FONT="]Celeste just smiled and said, ‘We’ll see’.[/FONT]
I am not a teacher.[FONT="]Celeste just smiled and said, ‘We’ll see’.[/FONT]
It is outside the quotes, because it marks the end of the whole sentence. That's BrE practice.In any English, the period (full stop) goes inside the quotes, because it belongs to the sentence inside them:
Celeste just smiled and said, "We’ll see."
I would put the full stop outside the quotation marks because "We'll see" is part of the sentence, not a sentence on its own.I am not a teacher.
In American English (which is what I thought they used in the Philippines), those should be double quotes. In any English, the period (full stop) goes inside the quotes, because it belongs to the sentence inside them:
Celeste just smiled and said, "We’ll see."
Next time.Too late.;-)
I am not a teacher.It is outside the quotes, because it marks the end of the whole sentence. That's BrE practice.
Are you saying then, that what precedes the quotes is a complete sentence?I am not a teacher.
"We'll see" is a complete sentence in quoted speech, and if it had been 'We'll see,' she said, the comma would go inside in both Englishes. I want to believe you, but I think I would have remembered something so strange as a period belonging to a quoted sentence floating all alone out at the end like that.
Are you saying then, that what precedes the quotes is a complete sentence?
I am not a teacher.We'll agree to differ on that then.;-)
There isn't one right way.:-( (I do use smileys, because I'm cool.) Some people accept one convention, others a different one.I am not a teacher.
I never agree to differ (I never use smileys, either). Anyway, there is a right way, and I want to know what it is.