When you quote people...?

Question

when you quote people do you put periods at the end of " or before "

For example "he walked my dog."

or "he walked my dog".

what are the rules for this?

Answer 1

Before

Answer 2

I was always confused on this too. ill have to look for other answers to and check back :P

Answer 3

the period come before the quote

Answer 4

I believe it's before the end quotes. The same is with commas.

"He walked my dog," said Sally.

Answer 5

You place the period within the quotation mark.

example: he said, "the sun is bright."

Answer 6

punctuation goes inside of the quotes. i believe.

Answer 7

before dumbass

alalahahah

Answer 8

It depends on what type of citation style you plan to use. There is APA, MLA and Chicago style, those are the ones that I know of. For your specific example, you need to put the period before the quotation marks. Here is a website for rules of sourcing using the MLA style: http://www.english.uiuc.edu/cws/wworksho...

Answer 9

If a quote comprises a whole sentence, the full stop should come before the closing quote. If the quote is part of a sentence, the full stop comes after the closing quote.

Answer 10

you quote nicly girl

answer my question and get to know me ski

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...

Answer 11

before

"Let's go to the park!"

Answer 12

the period goes inside the quotes.

ie "he walked my dog."

Answer 13

the period goes INSIDE the quotations.

Answer 14

before.

"That's how it is!", said my teacher once upon a time!

Answer 15

Period, and other punctuation always goes inside of the quotation marks!

Answer 16

no period

Answer 17

Rule of thumb....

The punctuation always goes inside of anything.  Quotes and parenthesees.

The way you had it first was correct =)

Have a GREAT Weeeek!!!

Answer 18

before the "  -- he walked my dog."

Suzy said "today will be a great day!"