The sentence is: "You are clever".

[Tan Elaine]

The sentence is: "You are clever".

1. Is the colon required?
2. Should the full stop be inside the quotation marks in British English?

Thanks.

 

[emsr2d2]

The colon is not required. The full stop should be inside the quotation marks in BrE because the entire sentence is being quoted. If only part of a sentence is quoted, the full stop would go outside the quotation marks.

The sentence is "You are clever."
The sentence includes the words "are clever".